ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,437, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for control of dynamic systems with stringent time constraints" was invented by Yasir Al-Nadawi (South Windsor, Conn.) and Milos Ilak (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes utilizing a learning model, which has been trained to mimic the nominal control outputs of a model predictive control, to generate a nominal control output for a system that is an aircraft system having one or more system constraints. The method also includes, based on the nominal control output, satisfying each of one or more system constraints, imp...