US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Generative modeling and representational learning from multi-sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree data" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,679, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generative modeling and representational learning from multi-sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree data" was invented by Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Marcos Martinez Galindo (Dublin), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Mykhaylo Zayats (Dublin), Nhan Huu Pham (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.), Marco Luca Sbodio (Dublin), Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generative modeling from phylogenetic data is provided. The method comprises creating a multi-sequence ...