ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,506, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sustainment Technologies Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Data-driven requirements analysis and matching" was invented by Richard Hsueh-Yee Leu (Austin, Texas), Bhairavsingh Ghorpade (Dallas), Bret Boyd (Bee Cave, Texas) and Michael Morford (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data-driven requirements analysis and matching are described, including receiving an input from a notification service over a data network, the input including data indicating a requirement used to manufacture, procure, or distribute an item, the requirement being generated by an application configured...