ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,142, issued on July 15, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Generating robotic assembly instructions from three-dimensional computer-aided design models" was invented by Kumar Abhinav (Hazaribag, India), Alpana Dubey (Bangalore, India), Shubhashis Sengupta (Bangalore, India) and Piyush Goenka (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) model, and may generate an assembly graph with nodes that represent components and edges that represent contact between the components. The device may generate component graphs for the components, and ...