ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,954, issued on July 28, was assigned to Central South University (Changsha, China).

"Method for generating small molecule based on pharmacophore model, device, and medium" was invented by Min Li (Changsha, China), Renyi Zhou (Changsha, China) and Huimin Zhu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for generating a small molecule based on a pharmacophore model, a device, and a medium. The method includes: using a fully connected graph to represent a pharmacophore model; using a feature extraction model based on a graph neural network to extract a feature vector of the pharmacophore model...