US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on May 27 for "Goal-driven computer aided design workflow" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,634, issued on May 27, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Goal-driven computer aided design workflow" was invented by Francesco Iorio (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralized design engine receives a problem specification from an end-user and classifies that problem specification in a large database of previously received problem specifications. Upon identifying similar problem specifications in the large database, the design engine selects design strategies associated with those similar problem specifications. A given design strategy includes one or more optimization algorithms, one or more geometry kernels...