ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,668, issued on July 29, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable media for automated design of molecules with desired properties using artificial intelligence" was invented by Olexandr Isayev (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Mariya Popova (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Alexander Tropsha (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein includes computational methods, systems and non-transitory computer readable media for de-novo drug discovery, which is based on deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques. The ...