ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,198, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Evolutionary algorithm for searching for a chemical structure having a target physical property that maintains structural diversity among candidates" was invented by Jun Nakabayashi (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for searching a compound, a program for searching a compound, a recording medium, and a device for searching a compound, which are capable of efficiently searching a structure of a compound. In the method for searching a compound according to the first aspect, because of performing...