ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,953, issued on July 28, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and media for molecule design using machine learning mechanisms" was invented by Neal W. Woodbury (Tempe, Ariz.) and Alexander T. Taguchi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for molecule design using machine learning include: forming a first training set for a neural network using, for each of a first plurality of known molecules, a plurality of input values that represent the structure of the known molecule and a plurality of functional property values for the known mo...