ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,626, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Virtual review system for land development" was invented by Nawari O. Nawari (Gainesville, Fla.) and Sabrina A. Dugan (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents systems and methods for automated determination of development code performance. One such method, among others, comprises storing, by a computing device, land development design data in a building information model (BIM) file or a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file, wherein the BIM or the CAD file comprises a permit application file h...