ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,092, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Progress tracking with automatic symbol detection" was invented by Xin Xu (San Francisco), Graham Garland (San Francisco), James Wang (San Francisco), Cory Wolnewitz (Jupiter, Fla.), Christine Laffitte (San Francisco), Alexander Huang (Fremont, Calif.), Nikita Shalimov (Oakland, Calif.), Nicholas Moores (Oakland, Calif.), Brian Suwan Soe (San Bruno, Calif.), Anand Rajagopal (San Francisco), Arjun Nayini (Oakland, Calif.), Sanjay Penumetsa Raju (Burlington, Mass.), Jeffrey Lin (Pittsburgh), Joseph Michael Bryan (San Francisco) and Paulo Rodrigues Espeschite Arantes (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* rel...