US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Nov. 25 for "Genetic optimization techniques for designing manufacturing facilities" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,803, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Genetic optimization techniques for designing manufacturing facilities" was invented by Damon Lau (New York), David Benjamin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), James Stoddart (Atlanta), Lorenzo Villaggi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Dale Zhao (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for designing manufacturing facilities. A design application imports a computer-aided design (CAD) model and metadata associated with a manufacturing facility to generate a data set that specifies geometric and manufacturing constraints of the manufacturing facility. The design applica...