US Patent Issued to Hexagon Technology Center on May 5 for "Virtual environment for large-scale capital projects" (Alabama, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,796, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Virtual environment for large-scale capital projects" was invented by Christian List (Madison, Ala.), Joseph Chad Shupe (Madison, Ala.), Brian D. Scarsdale (Hampton, Va.) and Jiti Kottukappallil (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method generates a virtual environment representing a large-scale capital project with a plurality of objects. Each object corresponds to at least one of a plurality of files. The method further associates a user indicator with a given object of the plurality of objects after access to a given file. The...