ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,452, issued on June 23, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"System architecture and methods of determining device behavior" was invented by Tillmann Christoph Kubis (West Lafayette, Ind.), Daniel Alberto Lemus (El Paso, Texas) and James Anthony Charles (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes using a first procedure of discretizing a user specified nano-device structure for at least one quantum method with open boundary conditions. Additionally, the first procedure includes solving the at least one quantum method with open boundary conditions, thereby having a solution of the a...