ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,280, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Computer aided generative design with filtering to facilitate 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing processes" was invented by Jaesung Eom (Wexford, Pa.), Ravi Kumar Burla (Novi, Mich.), Jesus Rodriguez (Farmington, Mich.), Benjamin McKittrick Weiss (Tualatin, Ore.) and Nan Li (Mount Waverley, Australia).

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 of physical structures, where the 3D models of the physical structures are produced so as to facilitate 2.5-axis subtractive ma...