ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,221, issued on July 7, was assigned to PIPA LLC (Davis, Calif.).

"Semantic network for bioactive compound discovery from scientific literature" was invented by Yiannis Kokkinos (Athens, Greece), Theodoros Panagiotakos (Athens, Greece), Akis Nousias (Salonika, Greece), Yiannis Makris (Athens, Greece) and Ilias Tagkopoulos (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated therapy discovery includes: accessing a corpus of scientific publications; compiling a population of semantic concepts from the corpus of scientific publications into a vector space model; deriving domains of concepts in the vector space model based ...