ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,147, issued on April 14, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Predicting protein structures using auxiliary folding networks" was invented by Simon Kohl (London), Olaf Ronneberger (London), Mikhail Figurnov (London) and Alexander Pritzel (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a structure prediction neural network that comprises an embedding neural network and a main folding neural network. According to one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a training network input characterizing a training protein;...