ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,292, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and system for sharing collaborative digital models" was invented by Stalin Arockiadoss Michael (Irving, Texas), Andrew Klaassen (Manchester, Conn.) and James McIntyre (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of automatically facilitating redaction of a digital model including obtaining at least metadata of a first digital model of a first system and a second digital model of a second system, wherein the first digital model and second digital model each include a plurality of respective discrete subsystems representing different functi...