ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,052, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system to identify natural products from mass spectrometry and genomics data" was invented by Bahar Behsaz (Pasadena, Calif.), Liu Cao (Pittsburgh), Mustafa Guler (Pittsburgh), Yi-Yuan Lee (Ithaca, N.Y.), Hosein Mohimani (Pittsburgh), Mihir Mongia (Pittsburg, Pa.) and Donghui Yan (Pittburgh, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is for receiving data representing gene clusters, the gene clusters including one or more genes configured to encode one or more polypeptides or other small molecules; accessing a machine learning mod...