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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Noubar B. Afeyan, Lexington, MA (US);
Kamal M. Malek, Weston, MA (US);
Nigel J. Bufton, OxfordShire, GB;
Sevan G. Ficici, Cambridge, MA (US);
Howard A. Austin, Lexington, MA (US);
Larry J. Austin, Legal Representative, Alexandria, VA (US);
Honor E. Mcclellan, Legal Representative, Waban, MA (US);
Noubar B. Afeyan, Lexington, MA (US);
Kamal M. Malek, Weston, MA (US);
Nigel J. Bufton, OxfordShire, GB;
Sevan G. Ficici, Cambridge, MA (US);
Howard A. Austin, Lexington, MA (US);
Larry J. Austin, legal representative, Alexandria, VA (US);
Honor E. McClellan, legal representative, Waban, MA (US);
Affinova, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention involves generating and presenting, typically electronically, a number of design alternatives to persons who are participating in the design, selection, or market research exercise. The participants (referred to as 'selectors') transmit data indicative of their preferences among or between the presented design alternatives, and that data is used to derive a new generation of design alternatives or proposals. The new designs are generated through the use of a computer program exploiting a genetic or evolutionary computational technique. The process is repeated, typically for many iterations or cycles.