ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,530, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Expert-in-the-loop AI for materials generation" was invented by Petar Ristoski (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry Zubarev (San Jose, Calif.), Linda Ha Kato (San Jose, Calif.), Anna Lisa Gentile (San Jose, Calif.), Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Gruhl (San Jose, Calif.), Steven R. Welch (Gilroy, Calif.), Daniel Paul Sanders (San Jose, Calif.), James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.), Chandrasekhar Narayan (San Jose, Calif.), Chad Eric DeLuca (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Alfredo Alba (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Candidat...