ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,878, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for reinforcement learning molecular modeling" was invented by Austin Robert Clyde (Chicago), Arvind Ramanathan (Naperville, Ill.) and Rick Stevens (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include one or more processors configured to identify a candidate molecule, provide the candidate molecule as an input to a simulation, operate the simulation, monitor at least one parameter of the simulation, modify the candidate molecule based on the at least one parameter, and output the modified candidate molecule responsive to a conv...