ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,159, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Generative Vision Ltd. (Worcester, Great Britain).

"Method for automatically generating design solutions for an engineering design project" was invented by Laurence Cook (Worcester, Great Britain), Joe Griston (Worcester, Great Britain), Nick Arini (Worcester, Great Britain), Nick Boultbee (Worcester, Great Britain), Carlos Rodriguez-Toro (Worcester, Great Britain), Glyn Stevens (Worcester, Great Britain), Ian Mackenzie (Worcester, Great Britain) and Sam Phillips (Worcester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing a descriptor of a project; extra...