ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,748, issued on July 15, was assigned to The MathWorks Inc. (Natick, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for performing worst-case execution time analysis of simulation models" was invented by Yuchen Zhang (Dover, Mass.), Partha Biswas (Wayland, Mass.), Xiaocang Lin (Sherborn, Mass.), Dixin Zhou (Ashland, Mass.), Mario Bambagini (Histon, Great Britain), William F. Potter (Waddell, Ariz.) and Chirag Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods determine tight Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) for a simulation model or code generated for a model. Composite code blocks may be constructed from basic code blocks of an...