ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,136, issued on May 6, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Computer-implemented techniques for creating layouts for physical spaces" was invented by David Benjamin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rui Wang (New York) and Dale Zhao (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments disclose techniques for generating a layout for a physical space or a building. The techniques include generating a layout based on a floorplan of a physical space, generating a plurality of spatial unit grids corresponding to a plurality of spatial units to be placed in the physical space, identifying a placement for a first spatial unit grid in ...