US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, California Institute of Technology on March 25 for "Systems and methods for structurally characterizing compounds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,343, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for structurally characterizing compounds" was invented by Hosea M. Nelson (Los Angeles), Jose A. Rodriguez (Los Angeles), Brian M. Stoltz (San Marino, Calif.), Tamir Gonen (Los Angeles) and Michael Martynowycz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of collecting electron diffraction patterns from nanocrystals to obtain a three-dimensional structural model of a compound, as well as methods of identifying comp...