[Aric2000]

Sorry, information overload, you're right, it wasn't explained in this article. My apologies.

I have read elsewhere, that this device had been patented in 2000 and since then there have been a number of others that have been submitted.

Hence the term, Patent Pending.

Sorry, but NOT all of my information comes from this forum, but then again, I should have been more succinct, you can't seem to handle the fact that evolution does INDEED work, and is proven EVERY day.

Yep, must be tough for you guys, but then again, galileo made it awfully tough for the church too, but they finally came around.

[AndrewC]

I have read elsewhere, that this device had been patented in 2000 and since then there have been a number of others that have been submitted.

Why would the person who was involved in the process make the referenced statement in 2003? Why would the following be written in the February 2003 Scientific American?

The first patent for an invention created by genetic programming may soon be granted.