US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Topology-driven completion of chemical data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,492, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Topology-driven completion of chemical data" was invented by Dmitry Zubarev (San Jose, Calif.) and Petar Ristoski (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive molecular data for a plurality of molecules. The processor may perform topological data analysis on the molecular data to generate a molecular topological map. The processor may identify one or more lacunae in the molecular topological map. The processor may generate one or more additional molecules to fill at least one of the one or more lacunae."

The pat...