ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,295, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for using radiation imaging data to analyze components" was invented by Robert Koch (Hartford, Conn.), Iuliana Cernatescu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Christopher Pelliccione (Tolland, Conn.), Ryan Breneman (Newington, Conn.) and David Furrer (Marlborough, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes obtaining one or more three dimensional computer models that model geometric and material properties of a component, and model beam properties of a beam of radiation to be applied to the component; utilizing the one or more three dimens...