ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,342, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pythia Labs Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for artificial intelligence-guided biomolecule design and assessment" was invented by Joshua Laniado (Los Angeles), Julien Jorda (Los Angeles), Matthias Maria Alessandro Malago (Santa Monica, Calif.), Thibault Marie Duplay (Los Angeles), Mohamed El Hibouri (Los Angeles) and Lisa Juliette Madeleine Barel (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for designing and testing custom biologic molecules in silico which are useful, for example, for the treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease. In par...