Sarah M Cunningham

Title: Sarah M. Cunningham and Automated Road-Drainage Design

Introduction

Sarah M. Cunningham is an inventor associated with Autodesk, Inc., and is based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Her patent work addresses the automation of drainage-system design within building information modeling (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) environments.

Latest Patents

Cunningham is named on 1 patent: “Method and Apparatus for Automatically Creating a Drainage System Along a Road Network in a Building Information Model (BIM) Computer Aided Design (CAD) Three-Dimensional (3D) Model.” The invention describes a method and system for generating drainage components along a road network in a 3D model. It uses road geometry, centerlines, curbs, and surrounding conditions, together with configurable rules, to determine component placement. The design can be generated dynamically, with the placement of some components influencing the locations of others.

Career Highlights

Cunningham’s listed patent connects her work with Autodesk’s design-software field. The invention focuses on streamlining the creation of road-drainage systems by applying configurable rules to information represented in a BIM/CAD model.

Collaborations

The provided information lists Gunjan Choudhary and Charles R. Ogden as Cunningham’s coworkers. Their names are associated with her professional context, though the supplied details do not specify their roles in the patent.

Conclusion

Sarah M. Cunningham’s patent presents an automated approach to designing drainage systems within 3D road-network models, combining road and site information with configurable placement rules.