ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,382, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Product design generator" was invented by Sumanta Mukherjee (Bangalore, India), Subarna Roy (Bengaluru, India), Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India) and Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment establishes a product design database based at least in part on product design data received from a product image repository, wherein the product design data is representative of a plurality of product designs. The embodiment ranks each product design based on a ranking metric derived from market data c...