ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,118, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Model-based functional hazard assessment (FHA)" was invented by Victor Arcos Barraquero (Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain), Sandy Cherian (Munich), Sheila Laurensia Evans (Snohomish, Wash.), Erica Graham (Kenmore, Wash.), James Michael Milstead (Athens, Ala.), Hung Thai (Lynnwood, Wash.), Christopher M. Uyeda (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Shakil Ahmed (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model-based functional hazard assessment (FHA) is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for generating a model-based FHA associated with a product includes an associator to asso...