ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 23 -- THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, New York, New York has been assigned a patent (No. US 12043660 B2, initially filed Dec. 14, 2021) developed by twenty-one inventors Peter Kwong, Washington, District of Columbia; Young Do Kwon, Kensington, Maryland; Ivelin Georgiev, Nashville, Tennessee; Gilad Ofek, Gaithersburg, Maryland; Baoshan Zhang, Bethesda, Maryland; Krisha McKee, Columbia, Maryland; John Mascola, Rockville, Maryland; Mark Connor . . .