ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,147, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Pattern matching tool" was invented by Winson Chu (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pattern attaching technique involves (1) obtaining a first collection of data libraries associated with a first set of intersection points among a first set of lines in a first two-dimensional (2D) drawing and a second collection of data libraries associated with a second set of intersection points among a second set of lines in a second 2D drawing and (2) comparing the first collection of data libraries and the second collection of data libraries i...