US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Dec. 16 for "Techniques for automatically generating urban and neighborhood designs" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,288, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for automatically generating urban and neighborhood designs" was invented by David Benjamin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), James Stoddart (Atlanta), Lorenzo Villaggi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Danil Nagy (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An urban design pipeline automatically generates design options for an urban design project based on a financial model. The urban design pipeline includes a geometry engine that generates candidate designs to meet various design criteria and design objectives associated with the urban design project. The urban design pipeline also...