US Patent Issued to eVolve MEP on July 21 for "Optimized wiring and network cable routing in building information modeling environments" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,338, issued on July 21, was assigned to eVolve MEP LLC (Brookhaven, Ga.).

"Optimized wiring and network cable routing in building information modeling environments" was invented by Matthew Hannon (Atlanta) and Adam Heon (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated wiring run generation plugin for a building computer-aided design ("CAD") program is disclosed. The plugin receives user-defined pathways within a model layout and identifies start and end points requiring connections, accessing a run schedule as needed. It evaluates possible routes by detecting pathway segments within a threshold distance that have an open, orthogo...