ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,992, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kitov AI Ltd. (Kfar Kasim, Israel).

"Encoding of intercomponent inspection requirements" was invented by Joseph Rubner (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assembly-level properties defined by a manufactured product's assembly tree analyzed as trigger predicates to assist identification (i.e., selection and/or preparation) of inspection requirements for the manufactured product. Particular emphasis is placed on hierarchical relationships-assembly identification, effects of manufacturing on the visibility/accessibility of an assembly to inspection, and using assembly-level sema...