ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,243, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Model for a manufacturing process" was invented by Omar EL-Qawasmeh (Bloomington, Ill.) and Fasil Mulatu Kero (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution provides a model for manufacturing products, such as electric vehicles. The solution can use a data processing system to receive data identifying physical characteristics of a part of a plurality of parts of a product to assemble. Data processing system can identify a first constraint corresponding to ergonomic data for assembling the part. Data processing system can identify a s...