US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 1 for "Synell creation, evolution, and digital transmission" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,877, issued on July 1, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Synell creation, evolution, and digital transmission" was invented by Andreas Mershin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Katarzyna Paulina Adamala (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synells are created by encapsulating components and iteratively optimizing each synell for a desired trait. Each synell is tested during each interation. Failed synells are discarded. Additional synell components are added during each iteration, with iterative optimization being repeated until synells having the trait are created. A method for synell reproduction...