ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,483, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Application of boundary conditions on voxelized meshes in computer aided generative design" was invented by Jaesung Eom (Wexford, Pa.), Jesus Rodriguez (Farmington, Mich.), David Jon Weinberg (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Siavash Navadeh Meshkat (Carlsbad, Calif.), Jonas Dalidd (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ravi Kumar Burla (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a design space, design criteria, and boundary condition...