ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,507, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Artificial intelligence-based engineering requirements analysis" was invented by Brian Parrish (Smithville, Mo.), Adam Zakaria (Cambridge, Mass.), Xuan Chau (Lexington, Mass.), David McCreight (Vienna, Va.), Connor Smedley (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Paul Butler (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.) and Pete Carlisle (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described that use artificial intelligence (AI)-based natural language processing (NLP) techniques to rapidly analyze, merge, and/or identify relationships between systems engineering artifact...