ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,565, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Toolpath generation by reinforcement learning for computer aided manufacturing" was invented by David Patrick Lovell (Moseley, Great Britain), Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar (London) and Saaras Mehan (West Bridgford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or...