US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on April 7 for "Building information modeling systems and methods" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,208, issued on April 7, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Building information modeling systems and methods" was invented by Jiansong Zhang (Lafayette, Ind.) and Temitope Akanbi (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) structure model from a two-dimensional (2D) drawing file, which includes one or more illustrations of a structure, using a data processing device includes importing the 2D drawing file to the data processing device, converting the 2D drawing file into a raster graphics file, converting the raster graphics file into a vector graphic...