US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on March 4 for "Techniques for tailoring fabrication environments based on user, task, and expertise" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,987, issued on March 4, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for tailoring fabrication environments based on user, task, and expertise" was invented by Jun Gong (Hanover, N.H.), Fraser Anderson (Alberta, Canada), George Fitzmaurice (Ontario, Canada) and Tovi Grossman (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for determining users, tasks, and levels of expertise in fabrication environments. Sensors may be placed in a fabrication environment, instrumented in tools, and/or worn on users. Given labeled features extracted from sensor data, machine learning techniques are used to train m...