US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Oct. 6 for "Automated layout design for building game worlds" (American, British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,191, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Automated layout design for building game worlds" was invented by Yi Wang (Richmond, Calif.), Adam Gaier (Bonn, Germany), Dale Zhao (New York), Hilmar Alexander Koch (San Francisco), Jieliang Luo (San Bruno, Calif.), Christopher Michael Wade (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Evan Atherton (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide the ability to build a game world. A story is obtained that provides a textual narrative of a sequence of events. Plot facilities and a set of constraints are extracted from the story. Each of the plot...