US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on June 10 for "Cloud-enabled generation of construction metrics and documentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,070, issued on June 10, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Cloud-enabled generation of construction metrics and documentation" was invented by Patrick Liam Colm Tierney (Berkeley, Calif.) and Abhijit Oak (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product generates construction metrics. Building means, methods, and limitations of construction for one or more companies are gathered in a computer. A digital building information model (BIM) is acquired. Fabrication and construction parameters are extracted from the BIM. Construction metrics (for the BIM) are generated by ...