ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,218, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES AMERICAS CORP. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Cosmoplex: self-consistent simulation of self-organizing systems" was invented by Andreas Klamt (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulation, in particular for computerized calculation, of at least one physical property of a system of one or more chemical species that includes at least one chemical species dissolved in at least one inhomogeneously distributed chemical species, using a quasi-chemical calculation based on the statistical thermodynamics of pairwise interactions of molecule surface segments. Accordin...