ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,729, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Evolve MEP LLC (Atlanta).

"Rule-based design scheduling system for processing build project schedules" was invented by Clay Freeman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for processing a schedule for a build project. In an example, a server can receive a data file that includes the schedule. The server can extract locations from the schedule and map activities in the schedule to their corresponding locations. The server can also map each activity to a drawing type based on the type of activity. Each drawing type can have an associated work phase, and the se...