ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,968, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multiple chemical programs for an array of chemical reactors with a single array of reactants" was invented by Leonidas Georgopoulos (Zurich), Aleksandros Sobczyk (Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Alain Claude Vaucher (Zurich), Philippe Schwaller (Duedingen, Switzerland), Joppe Geluykens (Zurich) and Teodoro Laino (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for executing multiple chemical programs in parallel in an array of chemical reactors using a single array of substance containers may be provided. The method includes recei...