ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,329, issued on July 22, was assigned to EvolutionaryScale, PBC (New York).
"Protein binder search" was invented by Salvatore J. Candido (San Francisco), Alexander W. Rives (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Thomas F. Hayes (San Francisco) and Jun Gong (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specification of a binding target protein is received. A machine learning model is used to predict a plurality of candidates for a property of a selected amino acid position of a binder protein to bind to the binding target protein. For each selected property candidate of the plurality of property candidates, the selected property candidate is used...