ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,561, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Generating technical drawings from building information models" was invented by Christopher Myers (Council, Idaho) and Chris Bindloss (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a software tool that facilitates the presentation of a three-dimensional view of a construction project as well as the generation of various types of two-dimensional technical drawings based on this three-dimensional view. In one implementation, the software tool causes a computing device to engage in the following operat...