ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,495, issued on July 29, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Active and passive querying of spatial recordings" was invented by Karthik Mahadevan (Toronto), Tovi Grossman (Toronto), Fraser Anderson (Newmarket, Canada), George William Fitzmaurice (Toronto) and Qian Zhou (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for searching through spatial recordings by constructing queries. One of the methods include constructing a query based on input received at a three-dimensional (3D) space displayed at a visual programming interface, wherein the input ...