ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,533, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Semantic multimodal search of engineering documents" was invented by Karl-Alexandre Jahjah (Quebec City), Marc-Andre Gardner (Quebec City), Marc-Andre Lapointe (Quebec City), Evan Rausch-Larouche (Quebec City) and Louis-Philippe Asselin (Quebec City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, a semantic multimodal search function is provided in an engineering application for searching engineering documents. In an indexing phase, the application indexes a library of engineering documents to build an embedding database. For each of the engineering docu...