US Patent Issued to CERTAINTEED on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for visualization of building structures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,523, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CERTAINTEED LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for visualization of building structures" was invented by Brice Dubost (Newton, Mass.), Sizhu You (Auburndale, Mass.) and Rachel Z. Pytel (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for real-time visualization of building structures are disclosed. A computing system may calculate physical illumination characteristics for each of a plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements layered in simulation at specified surface locations of a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model of a building structure, wherei...