ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,052, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC ONCOIMMUNITY AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Method and system for binding affinity prediction and method of generating a candidate protein-binding peptide" was invented by Marius Eidsaa (Oslo, Norway), Richard Stratford (Oslo, Norway) and Trevor Clancy (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-implemented method of predicting a binding affinity of a query binder molecule to a query target molecule, the query binder molecule having a first amino acid sequence and the query target molecule having a second amino acid sequence, t...