ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,827, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (Montreal, Canada).

"Methods for polymorphic screening" was invented by Alexandre Levesque (Montreal, Canada), Thierry Maris (Montreal, Canada) and James Wuest (Outremont, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for screening a target compound for polymorphic forms is provided. The method comprises providing a library of mixed-crystal seeds, each mixed-crystal seed consisting essentially of the target compound and at least one structural analog that is structurally analogous to the target compound; and for each mixed-crystal seed: introducing the mixed-crystal seed...