ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,199, issued on April 21, was assigned to VUNO INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Machine learning method of neural network predicting mechanism of action of drug, and method of predicting mechanism of action of drug by using the neural network" was invented by Sejin Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wonmo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Weonjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a computing device to predict an action mechanism of a drug from medical images of a subject is disclosed. The method includes, from a plurality of medical images obtained in time series, outputting first compressed data corresponding t...