US Patent Issued to Trimble Solutions on July 1 for "Computer aided modeling and interactions with different models" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,636, issued on July 1, was assigned to Trimble Solutions Corp. (Espoo, Finland).

"Computer aided modeling and interactions with different models" was invented by Mikko Huovila (Espoo, Finland), Tapio Kohonen (Espoo, Finland), Petri Heinonen (Espoo, Finland) and David Bartliff (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital model of a structure comprises a physical BIM model and one or more analysis models for structural engineering, wherein a piece of the structure may have one digital representation, called a physical part, in the physical BIM model, and one digital representation, called an analysis part, in one of the anal...