ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,703, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generative hierarchical searching for compounds" was invented by Mengjiao Yang (Berkeley, Calif.), Simon Lutz Batzner (San Francisco), Muratahan Aykol (San Jose, Calif.), Ruiqi Gao (San Francisco), Alexander Lloyd Gaunt (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Brendan Charles McMorrow (London), Dale Eric Schuurmans (Edmonton, Canada), Ekin Dogus Cubuk (Berkeley, Calif.), Igor Mordatch (Oakland, Calif.) and Danilo Jimenez Rezende (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by one or more computers. The method comprises receiving a natural language qu...