ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,238, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"High throughput materials screening" was invented by Johanna Jesse Schwartz (Livermore, Calif.), Marissa Wood (Oakland, Calif.), Jianchao Ye (Tracy, Calif.), Adam W. Jaycox (Livermore, Calif.) and Xiaoting Zhong (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Screening for screening a material includes: providing active mixing direct-ink-writing of the material, providing in situ characterization substrates or probes that receive the material, and providing active learning planning for screening the material. The providing active ...