US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 31 for "Method for collaborative design on context boundaries in model-based tools" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,853, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Method for collaborative design on context boundaries in model-based tools" was invented by Melinda G. Refford (Melbourne, Fla.), Loris Dal Lago (Cles, Italy) and Luigi Di Guglielmo (Caldiero, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collaborative design of a system of interest (SoI) in a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) framework models the system into an artifact including customer-owned and supplier-owned portions. The customer system identifies a collaborative portion within the artifact, shared by both customer and supplier, whe...