ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,938, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).
"Platform for authoring, storing, and searching workflows" was invented by Douglas Look (Ithaca, N.Y.), Gonzalo Rubio (Monteviedo, Uruguay), Arindam Ganguly (San Rafael, Calif.), John Wallace (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Adam Arnold (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authoring platform for authoring a client workflow includes an arrangement of shapes representing steps and connections representing relationships between the steps. Online content retrieved from an online resource may be associated with steps of the client workflow. An authoring service receives...