US Patent Issued to STRUCTURA BIOTECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Methods and systems for reconstruction of three-dimensional structure and three-dimensional motion of a protein molecule" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,037, issued on July 15, was assigned to STRUCTURA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC. (Toronto).

"Methods and systems for reconstruction of three-dimensional structure and three-dimensional motion of a protein molecule" was invented by Ali Punjani (Toronto) and David Fleet (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for determining 3D structure and 3D motion of a protein molecule from 2D or 3D particle observation images. The method includes: initializing pose parameters and unknown model parameters; performing image formation which includes: generating one or more 3D deformation fields by inputting a latent coordinate ve...