ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,069, issued on June 10, was assigned to Evolve MEP LLC (Atlanta).
"Spool run route finding in CAD systems" was invented by Jason Faulkner (Atlanta) and Xiao Chun Yao (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive selection of endpoints for a spool on a graphical user interface ("GUI") and attempt to assemble a spool based on the endpoints. To do so, a plugin can execute a route-finding process that traverses routes from the endpoints. The routes can be determined by retrieving connectors from the endpoints and, for each connector, determining what parts are connected. For each connected part, the process can repea...