ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,457, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Retrosynthesis using neural networks" was invented by Ruoxi Sun (Mountain View, Calif.), Li Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo Dai (San Jose, Calif.) and Hanjun Dai (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing retrosynthesis using a neural network. One of the methods includes generating a prediction of a set of a plurality of predicted reactants that are combinable to generate a target compound, the generating comprising processing, for each of a plurality of candid...