ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,482, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The MathWorks Inc. (Natick, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for design validation" was invented by Paul Peeling (Ely, Great Britain) and Hannu Harkonen (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for design validation using a validation computing device and a designer computing device. The validation computing device can be configured to obtain a dataset and a record of designer interactions, provide a validation interface, and update a record of reviewer interactions. The validation interface can include a design option indicator, a justification in...