ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,516, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Method and device for floorplan generation" was invented by Nianxiong Liu (Beijing), Shurui Yan (Beijing) and Hang Su (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for residential unit floorplan generation, includes obtaining a current status of a floorplan, performing a plurality of iterations to obtain a plurality of scores until a predetermined number of iterations is reached, and deploying the one or more rooms to be deployed according to a highest score of the plurality of the scores to update the floorplan. In each of the plurality of iterations, the m...