ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,029, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to JMP Statistical Discovery LLC (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating a computer-executable usability study application" was invented by Jacob Davis Rhyne (Dallas, N.C.), Mark Wallace Bailey (Haddonfield, N.J.), Ryan Adam Lekivetz (Cary, N.C.), Peng Liu (Naperville, Ill.), Joseph Albert Morgan (Raleigh, N.C.) and Laura Castro-Schilo (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes obtaining application configuration data; computing, via an execution of a designed experiment, a plurality of application...