US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "Query-based molecule optimization and applications to functional molecule discovery" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,397, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query-based molecule optimization and applications to functional molecule discovery" was invented by Samuel Chung Hoffman (New York), Enara C Vijil (Westchester, N.Y.), Pin-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.), Payel Das (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Kahini Wadhawan (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query-based generic end-to-end molecular optimization ("QMO") system framework, method and computer program product for optimizing molecules, such as for accelerating drug discovery. The QMO framework decouples representation learning and gu...