ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,949, issued on July 22, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Monte Carlo method for the automated and highly efficient calculation of kinetic data of chemical reactions" was invented by Matthias Leven (Cologne, Germany), Jose Gamez (Cologne, Germany) and Kunibert Rehm (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for calculating transition states of a chemical reaction, and to a system for data processing comprising means for carrying out the method, to a computer program comprising instructions which cause a computer to execute the method...