US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Embedding-based generative model for protein design" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,637, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Embedding-based generative model for protein design" was invented by Payel Das (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Pin-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.), Enara C. Vijil (Westchester, N.Y.), Igor Melnyk (White Plains, N.Y.) and Yue Cao (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for designing protein sequences conditioned on a specific target fold. The system is a transformer-based generative framework for modeling a complex sequence-structure relationship. To mitigate the heterogeneity between the sequence domain and the fo...