ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,889, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for synthesizing target products by using neural networks" was invented by Minsik Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Youngchun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongseon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Younsuk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunji Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a target product by using a neural network is configured to: predict candidate reactant combinations for generating the target product by using a pre-trained retrosynthesis prediction model; pred...