US Patent Issued to Recursion Pharmaceuticals on May 13 for "Preemptible-based scaffold hopping" (Utah, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,360, issued on May 13, was assigned to Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Preemptible-based scaffold hopping" was invented by Mason L. Victors (Riverton, Utah), Nathan C. Wilkinson (Salt Lake City), Scott Nielsen (Salt Lake City) and Jorge Aguilera-Iparraguirre (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of molecular scaffold hopping an interface of a scheduler computer sends instructions, prepared by the scheduler computer, to a job runner computer to perform a plurality of separate computational tasks. Each of the separate computational tasks includes calculating one or more chemical properties f...