ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,822, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to JMP STATISTICAL DISCOVERY LLC (Cary, N.C.).

"Graphical user interfaces and computing systems for contextual discrete choice experiments" was invented by William Smith Fisher (Seneca, S.C.), Jacob Davis Rhyne (Dallas, N.C.), Mark Wallace Bailey (Haddonfield, N.J.), Joseph Albert Morgan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Ryan Adam Lekivetz (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system obtains multiple factors for a first environment in a first experiment. The multiple factors include one or more profile factors and one or more subject factors. Each profile factor of the one or more profile factors...