ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,719, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Computer simulation environment with output models and input models" was invented by John M. Bennett (Vashon, Wash.), Josh Christian (Tacoma, Wash.) and Gary Mansouri (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed relating computer simulation environments that comprise output models producing output data and input models waiting for a portion of output data. One example provides a computing system comprising a scheduler configured to determine if prerequisite data is available for each input model. On condition that the prerequisite dat...