ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,987, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Molecular design using local exploration" was invented by Maxime Langevin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating potential medicinal molecules using memory networks are descried. A method for generating analogs of a molecule includes: receiving one or more initial molecular structures; generating one or more of token string representations for each of the one or more initial molecular structures, each token string representation corresponding to an analog of a corresponding initial molecular structure. Generating the token string representation...