ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,725, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"System and method for building data exchange" was invented by Markus Aleksy (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Reuben Borrison (Schwetzingen, Germany), Matthias Berning (Worms, Germany), Philipp Bauer (Weinheim, Germany), Patric Ackermann (Fischbachtal, Germany) and Soeren Finster (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for building data exchange includes an information modelling unit, which includes a digital twin model, a building information modelling, wherein the information modelling unit provides modelling data, an extractor configured to det...