ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,200, issued on March 17, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High-throughput method to rapidly add chemical moieties to a small molecule library" was invented by Angela N. Koehler (Belmont, Mass.), Christina Woo (Cambridge, Mass.), Catherine Henry (Keswick, Va.), Chia-Fu Chang (Cambridge, Mass.), Sebastian Pomplun (Cambridge, Mass.), Jasmin Kruell (Cambridge, Mass.) and Brice Curtin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Organic compounds for target identification, drug discovery, chemical library production, high-through...