ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,687, issued on May 27, was assigned to Science Applications International Corp. (Reston, Va.).
"Digital engineering ecosystem" was invented by David L. Ewing Jr. (Kingsport, Tenn.), Andrew R. Fischer (Chantilly, Va.) and Landon A. Michel (Rogersville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital engineering ecosystem may comprise a plurality of digital engineering software tools, a plurality of connectors corresponding to the digital engineering software tools, and project data integration software that may execute on, and be hosted by, a computing system. Users may access the digital engineering software tools to generate design d...