US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Material representation in computational systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,542, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Material representation in computational systems" was invented by Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry Zubarev (San Jose, Calif.), Gowri Nayar (San Jose, Calif.) and James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational system, which may be an artificial intelligence (AI) system, allows for the electronic representation, modeling, generation, rendering, simulating, and querying of polymeric materials by encoding architectural features as nodes and embedding a directed graph of the polymeric materials wi...