ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,717, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).
"Automating mechanical drafting workflows with geometry quantization" was invented by Varun Vijayrao Patil (Pune, India), Subash Thangavel (Tiruchengode, India) and Yash Sunil Morey (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide for automating drawing. A drawing of two or more entities is obtained and a resolution is determined. Based on the resolution, the drawing is quantized into a cell map. The cell map is a collection of multiple cells stored in a contiguous memory. Each of the multiple cells is quantized geometry data for and provide...