US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Feb. 17 for "Automated annotations for computer-aided design (CAD) drawings" (Singaporean, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,289, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Automated annotations for computer-aided design (CAD) drawings" was invented by Dawei Fei (Singapore), Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman (Ajax, Canada) and Kin Ming Kevin Cheung (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide for annotating a computer-aided design (CAD) drawing. Existing drawings are obtained and include annotations and geometries that serve as annotation points. The geometries are extracted and an Autoregressive Transformer model is trained on the extracted geometries and annotations. A new drawing is obtained. First user input selec...