ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,251, issued on March 18, was assigned to Herman Miller Inc. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Generating space models and geometry models using a machine learning system with multi-platform interfaces" was invented by Dudley E. Whitney (Annapolis, Md.), James L. Van Dragt (Zeeland, Mich.), Christopher J. Rysko (Grandville, Mich.), Cindy Y. Vannoy (West Olive, Mich.) and Chris Taylor (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to the export and translation of space models. A computing platform may receive data indicating a request to export a space model to a design tool, and the space model may be defined i...