ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,993, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOBLIS INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automatically generating computer programs by mutating code while ensuring code viability" was invented by Ilya Basin (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genetic algorithm system generates a set of computer programs and executes a process for assessment and conditional modification of the set, repeating the process over a plurality of generations to mutate the population of solutions over time. At each generation, the system scores each program in the set to generate a respective primary score adjustment, a respective secondary score...