US Patent Issued to Generate Biomedicines on March 17 for "Diffusion model for generative protein design" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,040, issued on March 17, was assigned to Generate Biomedicines Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Diffusion model for generative protein design" was invented by John Ingraham (Cambridge, Mass.), Ahmed Ismail (Somerville, Mass.), Fritz Heinrich Obermeyer (Bellingham, Wash.), Maxim Baranov (Golden, Colo.), Wujie Wang (Toronto), Zachary Kohl Costello (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gevorg Grigoryan (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for de novo protein generation. The system receives a set of design condition(s) that specify target characteristics of a synthetic protein. The system defines a modular energy function a...