ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,101, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for hybrid digital twin driven health predictions" was invented by Partha Adhikari (Karnataka, India), Deepu Vettimittathu Mathai (Karnataka, India), Avik Sadhu (Karnataka, India) and Venkateswara K. Reddy (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to predicting the health of an aircraft component based on a hybrid digital twin. A computing system receives nominal operational data and operational data from aircraft sensors based on flights by an aircraft to evaluate an aircraft component on the aircraft. T...