ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,900, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NUVOLO TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Audit of computer-aided design documents" was invented by Khoa Nguyen Van Ho (Houston), Tao Ye (Garfield, N.J.) and Tejas Yadav (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for auditing computer-aided design documents are described. A described technique includes receiving a computer-aided design document for import to a space management program; determining whether the computer-aided design document violates a rule set, wherein the rule set is configured to detect issues that inhibit importation of data from the computer-ai...