ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,379, issued on July 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Accelerating the thermoplastics welding process using multi-source machine learning" was invented by Sudeepta Mondal (Windham, Conn.), Soumalya Sarkar (Manchester, Conn.), John Joseph Gangloff (Middletown, Conn.), Wenping Zhao (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Lei Xing (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a set of instructions executable by the system for multi-source machine learning modeling framework for process property mapping of thermoplastic composite manufacturing, the set of instructions comprising: an instruction to select a surroga...