ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,795, issued on May 5, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Artificial intelligence-based techniques for design generation in virtual environments" was invented by Fraser Anderson (Camrose, Canada), Josh Davis (Mill Valley, Calif.), George Fitzmaurice (Toronto), Tovi Grossman (Toronto) and Merten Stroetzel (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for generating designs includes: causing one or more candidate designs to be displayed within a virtual-reality (VR) environment; receiving a user input associated with a first candidate design included in the one or more candidate designs via the VR environment...