US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 30 for "Binding peptide generation for MHC class I proteins with deep reinforcement learning" (New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,182, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Binding peptide generation for MHC class I proteins with deep reinforcement learning" was invented by Renqiang Min (Princeton, N.J.), Hans Peter Graf (South Amboy, N.J.) and Ziqi Chen (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating binding peptides presented by any given Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) protein is presented. The method includes, given a peptide and an MHC protein pair, enabling a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent to interact with and exploit a peptide mutation environment by repeatedly mutating the peptide and observing an observ...