ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,707, issued on June 23.
"System and method for personalized space planning" was invented by Peter de Lande Long (Westport, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a system and method for displaying interior design proposals for a given room according to known design principles and user preferences. The system is operative to convert user-input sketches and/or blueprints of two-dimensional space geometry into digital floor plans and identify and propose blocks of appliances and/or articles of furniture as design elements defined by their dimensions and any limiting characteristics. Each block is funct...