US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Machine learning model distillation for protein design" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,946, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning model distillation for protein design" was invented by Igor Melnyk (White Plains, N.Y.), Aurelie Chloe Lozano (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Payel Das (New York) and Enara C. Vijil (Millwood, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distilled machine learning model is produced via initializing a first model with initial weights. An input protein sequence is input into both the first model and a folding protein model, wherein the inputting to the first model generates logits, and wherein the inputting to the folding protein model generates...