ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,847, issued on Oct. 7.

"Drug design method based on autoregressive model" was invented by Suxia Han (Xi'an, China), Yungang Xu (Xi'an, China), Yuesen Li (Xi'an, China), Chengyi Gao (Xi'an, China), Yiping Li (Xi'an, China), Xin Song (Xi'an, China) and Xiangyu Wang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug design method based on an autoregressive model is provided, which relates to the field of drug design technologies. The method includes: applying a sub-word tokenization algorithm to biological text processing, training protein and ligand information in data sets to obtain a protein tokenizer and a ligand tokenizer, and cons...