ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,130, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"License-free surrogate model generation" was invented by Pieter Van Gils (Madrid) and Can Onur (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, node, and computer-readable medium are provided to convert a proprietary model to a tool-agnostic surrogate model using a functional mockup interface (FMI) standard. A proprietary model is received as a functional-mockup unit (FMU) An automated dataset generation is performed on the FMU to create input/output datasets based on design of experiments and input requirements. Steady-state operational-points are determined. Th...