US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Feb. 3 for "Generating designs for multi-family housing projects that balance competing design metrics" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,624, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Generating designs for multi-family housing projects that balance competing design metrics" was invented by David Benjamin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Dale Zhao (New York City, N.Y.) and Lorenzo Villaggi (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design engine is configured to automatically generate designs for multi-family housing projects that simultaneously meet local construction regulations while also meeting specific financial targets. A design generator within the design engine generates a first generation of design options that reflect historical design trends....