US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on Feb. 11 for "Techniques for extracting and displaying superelevation data from 3D roadway models" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,659, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Techniques for extracting and displaying superelevation data from 3D roadway models" was invented by Nicholas Woodfield (Watertown, Conn.), Alexandre Gagnon (Quebec, Canada), Joey LouAllen (Huntsville, Ala.) and Simon Normand (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, a superelevation tool extracts and displays superelevation data from a 3D roadway model by accessing roadway meshes and a horizonal alignment from the 3D roadway model, extracting a plurality of template drops from the one or more roadway meshes at locations along the...