ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,043, issued on March 17, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Molecule design with multi-objective optimization of partially ordered, mixed-variable molecular properties" was invented by Ji Won Park (Foster City, Calif.), Samuel Don Stanton (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Martin Watkins (San Francisco) and Kyunghyun Cho (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more property computational models may be applied to determine a first probability of a molecule design exhibiting a first property and a second probability of the molecule design exhibiting a second property. A plurality of samples in which each samp...