ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,429, issued on March 18, was assigned to Doxel Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Generating status of construction site based on hierarchical modeling that standardizes physical relationships of elements of a structure" was invented by Arunava Saha (Dublin, Calif.), Dobromir Voyager Montauk (Redwood City, Calif.), Richard William Turner (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Matthew Paul Orban (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for evaluating construction of structures are disclosed. Building information modeling (BIM) data is received in a non-standardized format for a set of structures undergoing construction. Scheduli...