ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,132, issued on July 14, was assigned to SLZ Inc. (Siheung-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus, method and program for automatically designing equipment lines in bim design data" was invented by Jae Heon Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Yu Mi Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for automatically designing an equipment line in BIM design data. When a plurality of pieces of equipment line installation data including a start point and an end point for equipment line installation in a construction site is input, an equipment line is automatically designed in the BIM design data bas...