Insilico Medicine’s Generative AI Patent Provides Advantage in AI Drug Discovery Race
Companies are increasingly turning to generative artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new therapeutics, giving biotech companies with patents on these technologies a distinct advantage in the tech-enabled pharmaceutical future. One of the pioneers in using generative AI to process biological and chemical data in order to design new molecules is biotech company Insilico Medicine. The Company filed a patent application on its mutual information adversarial autoencoder in 2018 – and that patent was approved in 2022.
The patent covers Insilico’s proprietary system for using generative AI to produce novel small molecules that can be further synthesized, tested and advanced into clinical assets – the algorithmic backbone to its Chemistry42 engine that has produced new possible treatments for diseases like fibrosis, cancer, and COVID-19.
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