ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,038, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Pattern Computer Inc. (Friday Harbor, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for generating a reduced-order surrogate model using genetic algorithms" was invented by Quinn Jackson (Vancouver, Canada), Gavin Dean (Seattle) and Matthew T. Keener (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genetic algorithm is used to generate a reduced-order surrogate model (ROSM) that approximates a data set. A fitness value is determined, for each parent chromosome of a population of parent chromosomes, by applying the data set to a chromosome function constructed from a sequence of genes of said each parent chrom...