US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on July 29 for "Techniques for utility structure modeling and simulation" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,614, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Techniques for utility structure modeling and simulation" was invented by William Schulze (Westerville, Ohio), Brett Willitt (East Aurora, N.Y.), David Cain (Delaware, Ohio), Michael H. Ford (Marysville, Ohio), Kevan Kramb (Columbus, Ohio), Timothy G. S. Overly (Worthington, Ohio), Michael Ratliff (Gahanna, Ohio) and Jeremy Wentworth (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for modeling and analyzing utility structures according to applied loads. Particularly, a model engine can utilize inputs related to a utility struc...