US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 27 for "Enabling multi-modal semantic search for complex materials to facilitate materials design and development tasks by foundation models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,392, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enabling multi-modal semantic search for complex materials to facilitate materials design and development tasks by foundation models" was invented by Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), Tim Erdmann (San Jose, Calif.), James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sarathkrishna Swaminathan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving a domain specific language description of a chemical structure; converting the domain specific language description of the chemical structure into a first graphical representation of ...