ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,179, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to New York University (New York).

"System and method for security and management of computer-aided designs" was invented by Rakesh Kumar Behera (Jersey City, N.J.), Sarvesh Sivaprakasam (Queens, N.Y.), Lakshmi Narasimhan Jagannathan (Queens, N.Y.) and Nikhil Gupta (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing an audio file comprises a non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor perform the steps of converting an additive manufacturing design file to a text-based file, converting the text-based file to a series...