US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on July 14 for "Method and apparatus to extend immutable data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,721, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus to extend immutable data" was invented by Raymond E. Walker (White Lake, Mich.) and William K. Sterbenz (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide the ability to extend immutable data. A first version of immutable design data is created. The first version of immutable design data is edited to create a second version of immutable design data. Subsequent to the creation of the second version of immutable data, the first version of immutable design data is augmented with first extendable data without creat...