US Patent 10545731 Variant modeling elements in graphical programs

Systems and methods provide, as part of an executable graphical model, a region for providing variants that includes one or more computational choices defining alternative execution implementations of the region. Conditions assigned to the one or more computational choices indicate which of the computational choices is active. The conditions specify logical expressions of variables that evaluate to True or False. For a given simulation of the executable graphical model, all of the logical expressions may evaluate to False, such that none of the computational choices are active. All of the computational choices of the executable graphical model may be removed for the given simulation.