ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,172, issued on July 28, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method to predict machined part variation for design optimization" was invented by Changsheng Guo (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting machined part variations for design optimization is provided. The method includes receiving computerized specifications for a part and tooling specifications for tooling used for building the part, producing the part using virtual machining based on the computerized and the tooling specifications and producing variations of the part using the virtual machining based on the computerized and th...