US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Optical flow based forecasting of binding states in molecular dynamic simulations" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,814, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optical flow based forecasting of binding states in molecular dynamic simulations" was invented by Giacomo Domeniconi (White Plains, N.Y.), Leili Zhang (White Plains, N.Y.), Guojing Cong (Ossining, N.Y.), Chih-Chieh Yang (White Plains, N.Y.) and Ruhong Zhou (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for executing a computation task in a molecular dynamic simulation includes identifying a bonding target on a ligand; constructing a protein structure; rendering an image of the ligand; subsampling data pertaini...