US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Sept. 30 for "Techniques for automatically designing structural systems for arbitrarily shaped buildings" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,477, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for automatically designing structural systems for arbitrarily shaped buildings" was invented by Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara (Beckenham, Great Britain), Musabbir Abdul Majeed (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Jayamal Bandara Wijeratne Rajapakse Konara Mudiyanselage (Brentwood, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a grid-based design application automatically generates a design for a structural system of a building. In operation, the grid-based design application generates a structural grid based on a region wi...