US 12,169,667 B2
Interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem
William Roper, Jr., Charleston, SC (US); Christopher Benson, Charleston, SC (US); Long N. Phan, Charleston, SC (US); Alethea Duhon, Orlando, FL (US); Baha Abu Nojaim, Roslindale, MA (US); and Sriram Krishnan, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Istari Digital, Inc., Charleston, SC (US)
Filed by Istari Digital, Inc., Charleston, SC (US)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/377,640.
Application 18/377,640 is a continuation of application No. 18/459,860, filed on Sep. 1, 2023.
Application 18/459,860 is a continuation of application No. 17/973,142, filed on Oct. 25, 2022, granted, now 11,775,707, issued on Oct. 3, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/419,051, filed on Oct. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0135059 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0232465 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06F 30/12 (2020.01); G06F 30/15 (2020.01); G06F 30/27 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/20 (2020.01) [G06F 30/12 (2020.01); G06F 30/15 (2020.01); G06F 30/27 (2020.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from a user device, a user request comprising design and/or engineering data (D/E data) corresponding to a prototype representation of a product;
transmitting, via an application programming interface (API) or software development kit (SDK), one or more inputs derived from the D/E data to two or more digital engineering tools for processing,
wherein the two or more digital engineering tools are provided by at least two distinct digital engineering tool providers,
wherein a first portion of the two or more digital engineering tools provided by a first provider of the at least two distinct digital engineering tool providers is not directly interoperable with a second portion of the two or more digital engineering tools provided by a second provider of the at least two distinct digital engineering tool providers, and
wherein the API or SDK is configured to interface with each of the two or more digital engineering tools to automatically enable interoperable use of multiple digital engineering tools in parallel;
receiving engineering-related data outputs from the two or more digital engineering tools;
storing data representative of a usage of the computing system associated with a user of the user device;
presenting, at the user device, information corresponding to the engineering-related data outputs and/or data corresponding to one or more validation and verification (V&V) products, wherein the presented information is responsive to the user request;
subsequent to presenting the information corresponding to the engineering-related data outputs and/or the data corresponding to the one or more V&V products at the user device, receiving instructions from the user device, wherein the instructions correspond to one or more interactions of a user with the user device; and
responsive to receiving the instructions from the user device, performing one or more manipulations of the D/E data.