US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Oct. 28 for "Techniques for workflow analysis and design task optimization" (Canadian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,761, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for workflow analysis and design task optimization" was invented by Tovi Grossman (Toronto), George Fitzmaurice (Toronto), Benjamin Lafreniere (Toronto), Juho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minsuk Chang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kaveh Hassani (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A W-graph system comprising a server connected with a plurality of clients via a network. Each client/user performs a design task via a design application while the server collects timestamped event data. The server generates a plurality of W-graphs for a plurality of tasks ba...