ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,502, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STOKE Space Technologies Inc. (Kent, Wash.).

"Product design and manufacture management system and method" was invented by Brent Andrew Bradbury (Seattle) and Andrew Lapsa (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of item assembly testing that include: obtaining assembly information; generating, based on the assembly information, a bill of materials (BOM) including a listing of parts corresponding to a configuration of parts defined by the assembly information; generating, based on the listing of parts, a set of reference designators; obtaining an item label set; generating, based on t...