ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,167, issued on Dec. 2.

"Method and apparatus for selectively cancelling the effect of the active center of a molecule" was invented by Carles Serrat Jurado (Sant Julia de Vilatorta, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for selectively cancelling the effect of the active center of a molecule are provided. The method comprises illuminating a target molecule with two synchronized ultrashort X-ray pulses using a laser, the two synchronized ultrashort X-ray pulses having different central photon energies the subtraction of which matches the photon energy of a peak of the core spectrum of the target molecule, such ...