ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,165, issued on May 20, was assigned to SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Method and device for generating a digital model of a building" was invented by Christian Frey (Unterageri, Switzerland), Wolfram Klein (Neubiberg, Germany) and Hermann Georg Mayer (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An initial building model is read in and a creator indication about the creator thereof is extracted therefrom. The creator indication is taken as a basis for loading a creator-specific object pattern library in which a respective object pattern has an assigned building element data record. The respective object patte...