US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute on May 26 for "Machine learning accelerated protein engineering through fitness prediction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,692, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Machine learning accelerated protein engineering through fitness prediction" was invented by Benjamin E. Deverman (Cambridge, Mass.), Fatmaelzahraa Sobhy Abdelmouty Eid (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ken Y. Chan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying production-fit amino acid sequence libraries are disclosed. The techniques may include accessing a statistical model relating an input amino acid sequence to production fitness of a protein having the input amino acid sequence, obtaining production fitness information for prod...