ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,824, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence apparatus and chemical material search method thereof" was invented by Takuro Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masami Sako (Kanagawa, Japan), Hyunchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyukgeun Cha (Seoul, South Korea), Dongho Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Masayuki Ohzeki (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system for efficiently searching for a chemical material satisfying desired characteristics by means of an annealing-based quantum computing device, the apparatus including a database that stores datasets of a chem...