ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,067, issued on March 3, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for simulating the temporal evolution of a physical system in real time" was invented by Jeremy Vayssettes (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Romain Gauchez (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Carole Heinry (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulating the variation as a function of time in a physical system giving in real time the state of this system, the state of the system being defined by a set of variables that are periodically updated with a preset period (P), the method comprising u...