US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Nov. 11 for "Generating designs for multi-family housing projects using shape parameter transformations" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,864, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Generating designs for multi-family housing projects using shape parameter transformations" was invented by David Benjamin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Dale Zhao (New York) and Lorenzo Villaggi (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design simulator executes a shape parameter engine that generates geometry corresponding to parking lots. The shape parameter engine implements a library of shapes, action markers, and construction rules to generate designs for parking lots. Each shape is a geometric the that can populate a design surface. Each action marker signifies ...