ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,372, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ainnocence Technologies LLC (Fla.).

"Method, device, and system for compound clustering and storage medium" was invented by Yutong Jin (Zhengzhou, China) and Lurong Pan (Vestavia Hill, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method, a device, and a system for compound clustering and a storage medium, including acquiring samples of compounds to be identified, and segmenting the samples of the compounds into a subset of samples including an initial identification tag; obtaining a sample legend according to the sample subset; and obtaining target identification tag r...