Christopher Lee Benson

Title: Christopher Lee Benson: Advancing Digital Engineering and Multimodal Interfaces.

Introduction

Christopher Lee Benson is an inventor based in Arlington, Virginia. His patent work addresses digital engineering, model collaboration, and new ways for people to interact with digital artifacts. He is associated with Istari Digital, Inc. His portfolio includes 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Benson’s recent patents focus on multimodal interaction with digital models and the integration of external feedback into digital engineering platforms.

“Multimodal User Interfaces for Interacting with Digital Model Files” describes methods and systems for interacting with a live digital object through conversational and spatial inputs. The system evaluates a user’s access and modification permissions, presents the digital artifact through a multimodal interface, and uses authorized inputs to generate a modified artifact. Supported interfaces may include graphical user interfaces and APIs, text or voice interactions, and spatial computing technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, as well as gesture-based controls.

“Digital Twin and Physical Twin Management with Integrated External Feedback Within a Digital Engineering Platform” concerns a platform for creating and managing digital and physical twins. It integrates feedback from physical prototypes and their environments, virtual prototypes, simulations, and subject-matter experts into engineering workflows. The platform can return updated results to external sources, supporting activities such as design, validation, verification, certification, assembly, operations, and maintenance.

Career Highlights

Benson’s disclosed inventions address challenges in complex-system engineering. One emphasizes permission-aware interaction with digital model artifacts, while the other focuses on incorporating feedback across digital models, physical systems, simulations, and human expertise. Together, these approaches support collaborative and iterative engineering processes.

Collaborations

Benson is associated with Istari Digital, Inc. His listed coworkers include Christopher Alexis Kotelly and William Roper, Jr.

Conclusion

Christopher Lee Benson’s patent work centers on making digital engineering more interactive and collaborative, combining multimodal user interfaces with feedback-driven management of digital and physical twins.