ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,481, issued on March 3, was assigned to INSTITUT PASTEUR (Paris).

"Method, device, and computer program for generating protein sequences with autoregressive neural networks" was invented by David Bikard (Paris), Sebastien Baur (Valdurenque, France) and Alexander Hawkins-Hooker (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for generating protein sequences in an autoregressive neural network comprising an encoder and a decoder, the decoder comprising an autoregressive module, the method comprising: obtaining a latent code and inputting the latent code into the autoregressive module; obtaining probabilities fr...