ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,405, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing port locations for an inverse-designed device" was invented by Cyril Bortolato (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating a design for a physical device are disclosed. A computing system receives a design specification. The design specification includes a design region, one or more ports, and a port location perimeter. The computing system determines an initial proposed design based on the design specification that includes the design region and a location for each port of the one or more ports within the ...