US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 15 for "Extension of SysML for functional hazard analysis" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,198, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Extension of SysML for functional hazard analysis" was invented by Alyssa Niquette (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Charles J. Nobilski (Vernon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed of using Systems Modeling Language (SysML) for a hazard analysis description that describes a potential functional failure of a physical system. The method includes describing the potential functional failure of the physical system in SysML using a first type of custom SysML element; and describing at least one potential cause and at least one potential effect of the po...