US Patent Issued to Google on July 8 for "Predicting biological functions of proteins using dilated convolutional neural networks" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,999, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Predicting biological functions of proteins using dilated convolutional neural networks" was invented by Maxwell Bileschi (Waltham, Mass.), Lucy Colwell (Cambridge, Mass.), Theodore Sanderson (London), David Benjamin Belanger (Cambridge, Mass.), Jamie Alexander Smith (Boston), Drew Bryant (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Mark Andrew DePristo (Los Altos, Calif.) and Brandon Carter (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting biological functions of proteins...