ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,348, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Math Works Inc. (Natick, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for analyzing variant configurations of simulation models" was invented by John E. Ciolfi (Wellesley, Mass.), Vaibhav Awale (Sangli, India) and Sudha S. Dhoorjaty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may analyze a simulation model that includes model elements configured to operate as variants. The variants may be controlled by variant conditions that may include variant control variables. A group of variant configurations may be defined for the model where each variant configuration may include a different...