25 Patents—John R. Koza


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9 Patents Related to Lotteries, Video Games, Printing, Skill Games

· Koza, John R. Game Ticket. United States Patent 4,174,857. Filed December 28, 1977. Issued November 20, 1979.

· Oberdeck; Martin K. and Koza, John R. Method of Making a Game Ticket. United States Patent 4,299,637. Filed: June 14, 1978. Issues November 10, 1981.

· Oberdeck; Martin K. and Koza, John R. Hydrophilic Sheet and Method of Making. United States Patent 4,540,628. Filed September 2, 1982. Issued September 10, 1985.

· Koza, John R., LaMarre; Norman T., and Keane, Martin A. lllusion of Skill Game Machine for a Gaming System. United States Patent 4,582,324. Filed January 4, 1984. Issued April 15, 1986.

· Koza, John R., LaMarre; Norman T., and Keane, Martin A., Video Gaming System with Pool Prize Structures. United States Patent 4,652,998. Filed January 4, 1984. Issued March 24, 1987.

· Koza, John R., Keane, Martin A., and Behm, William F. Lottery Ticket Integrity Number. United States Patent 4,725,079. Filed July 11, 1986. Issued February 16, 1988.

· Koza, John R., Ferguson; John R., Torneros; Maximiano D. Ticket Apparatus with a Transmitter. United States Patent 5,069,453 Filed June 8, 1990. Issued December 3, 1991.

· Koza, John R., Ferguson; John R., Torneros; Maximiano D. Broadcast Lottery. United States Patent 5,112,050. Filed January 5, 1990. Issued May 12, 1992.

· Koza, John R. Skill Games. United States Patent 6,767,284. Filed March 14, 2000. Issued July 27, 2004.

16 Patents Related to Genetic Programming

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems. United States Patent 4,935,877. Filed May 20, 1988. Issued June 19, 1990.

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems. Australian Patent 611,350. Issued September 21, 1991.

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems by Finding a Fit Composition of Functions. United States Patent 5,136,686. Filed November 5, 1991. Issued August 4, 1992.

· Koza, John R., and Rice, James P. A Non-Linear Genetic Process for Use with Plural Co-Evolving Populations United States Patent No. 5,148,513. Filed September 18, 1990. Issued September 15, 1992.

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems. Canadian Patent 1,311,561. Issued December 15, 1992.

· Koza, John R., and Rice, James P. A Non-Linear Genetic Process for Data Encoding and for Solving Problems Using Automatically Defined Functions. United States Patent No. 5,343,554. Filed May 11, 1992. Issued August 30, 1994.

· Koza, John R., and Rice, James P. Process for Problem Solving Using Spontaneously Emergent Self-Replicating and Self-Improving Entities. United States Patent No. 5,390,282. Filed June 16, 1992. Issued February 14, 1995.

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems. German patent 3916328.8-53. Issued June 18, 1997.

· Koza, John R., Andre, David, and Tackett, Walter Alden. Simultaneous Evolution of the Architecture of a Multi-Part Program to Solve a Problem Using Architecture Altering Operations. United States Patent 5,742,738. Filed August 4, 1994. Issued April 21, 1998. NOTE: This patent has same title as 6,058,385.

· Koza, John R. Non-Linear Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems. Japanese Patent Application No. 126512/89 in 1989. Japanese Patent 2,818,802. Issued August 28, 1998.

· Koza, John R., Andre, David, Bennett, Forrest H III, and Keane, Martin A. Method and Apparatus for Automated Design of Complex Structures using Genetic Programming. Filed February 20. 1996. U. S. Patent 5,867,397. Issued February 2, 1999. This patent has same title as 6,360,191.

· Koza, John R., Andre, David, and Tackett, Walter Alden. Simultaneous Evolution of the Architecture of a Multi-Part Program while Solving a Problem using Architecture Altering Operations. United States Patent 6,058,385. Filed March 7, 1997. Issued May 2, 2000. NOTE: This patent has same title as 5,742,738.

· Koza, John R., Bennett III, Forrest H, Andre, David, and Keane, Martin A. Method and Apparatus for Automated Design of Complex Structures using Genetic Programming. U.S. Patent 6,360,191. Filed February 20, 1996 and January 5, 1999. Issued March 19, 2002. This patent has same title as 5,867,397.

· Bennett III, Forrest H. and Koza, John R. Method and Apparatus for Automatic Synthesis, Placement and Routing of Complex Structures. U.S. patent 6,424,959. Filed June 17, 1999. Issued July 23, 2002.

· Koza, John R., Bennett III, Forrest H, Andre, David, and Keane, Martin A. Genetic Programming Problem Solver with Automatically Defined Stores, Loops, and Recursions. U.S. patent 6,532,453. Filed April 12, 1999. Issued March 11, 2003.

· Koza, John R., Keane, Martin A., Yu, Jessen, Bennett III, Forrest H, and Mydlowec, William. Method and Apparatus for Automatic Synthesis of Controllers. Filed September 10, 1999. U.S. Patent 6,564,194. Issued May 13, 2003.



· The home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at www.genetic-programming.com.

· For information about the field of genetic programming and the field of genetic and evolutionary computation, visit www.genetic-programming.org

· The home page of John R. Koza at Genetic Programming Inc. (including online versions of most published papers) and the home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University

· For information about John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University

· Information about the 1992 book Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, the 1994 book Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs, the 1999 book Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving, and the 2003 book Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence. Click here to read chapter 1 of Genetic Programming IV book in PDF format.

· 3,440 published papers on genetic programming (as of November 28, 2003) in a searchable bibliography (with many on-line versions of papers) by over 880 authors maintained by William Langdon’s and Steven M. Gustafson.

· For information on the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers

· For information on the Genetic Programming book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers, see the Call For Book Proposals

· For information about the annual 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference (which includes the annual GP conference) to be held on June 25–29, 2005 (Saturday – Wednesday) in Washington DC and its sponsoring organization, the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC). For information about the annual 2005 Euro-Genetic-Programming Conference (and the co-located Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization conference and other Evo-Net workshops) to be held on March 30 – April 1, 2005 (Wednesday-Friday) in Lausanne, Switzerland. For information about the annual 2005 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshop to be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For information about the annual 2004 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP) held in Cairns, Australia on December 6-7 (Monday-Tuesday), 2004. For information about the annual 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware Conference (EH) to be held on June 24-26 (Thursday-Saturday), 2004 in Seattle.


Last updated on August 28, 2004