US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on March 18 for "Techniques for storing and accessing data using an information model" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,972, issued on March 18, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for storing and accessing data using an information model" was invented by Gordon Bradley (Vancouver, Canada) and Gregory Vazzana (Hooksett, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for storing and accessing data in an information model. In some embodiments, data is stored in the information model using assets, components, and relationships, or using any other suitable transformation of the data. Each asset is a container for components. Each component stores data according to a schema that defines the organization of data in the ...