US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 17 for "Optimization of multiple molecules" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,195, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimization of multiple molecules" was invented by Akihiro Kishimoto (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Hama (Tokyo), Hsiang Han Hsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Djallel Bouneffouf (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of modifying molecular structures constrained by a budget is provided. The computer implemented method includes receiving from a user a subset of molecules, where each molecule is represented as a generation path, and receiving from the user an allotted budget for modifying a selection of molecules fro...