ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,927, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NLIGN ANALYTICS INC. (Blue Ash, Ohio).

"Manufacture modeling and monitoring" was invented by Joseph M. Kesler (Cincinnati), Thomas D. Sharp (Terrace Park, Ohio), Uriah M. Liggett (Independence, Ky.), Brian Bahr (Cincinnati), Chris M. Hodapp (Reading, Ohio) and Gary E. Coyan (Terrace Park, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for analyzing, monitoring, and/or modeling the manufacture of a type of part by a manufacturing process. Non-destructive evaluation data and/or quality related data collected from manufactured parts of the type of part may be a...