ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,857, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Collaboration module for model-based systems engineering platform" was invented by Jason Christopher Ferreira (Summerville, S.C.), Breighann Lynne Kalb (Charleston, S.C.) and Ashlyn Noel Kersey Hanrahan (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is performed by a collaboration module of a model-based systems engineering platform. The method includes maintaining a working version of a project and importing a first element from a remote database that stores a collaborative versio...