ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,100, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Geometric targeting for lightweight viewer" was invented by Stephen Doll (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for a lightweight viewer may include, among other things, a viewing window operable to display geometry established by one or more geometric objects of a tessellated model. The one or more geometric objects include one or more visual attributes that depict the respective geometry. A palette menu is established by a plurality of menu objects of the tessellated model. The menu objects are assigned respective visual attribute ...