Patents by Inventor Nigel P. Duffy

Nigel P. Duffy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120221501
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for modeling molecular properties using data regarding the partial orderings of compound properties, or by considering measurements of compound properties in terms of partial orderings are disclosed. One embodiment provides for constructing such partial orderings from data that is not already in an ordered form by processing training data to produce a partial ordering of the compounds with respect to a property of interest. Another embodiment of the invention may process the modified training data to construct a model that predicts the property of interest for arbitrary compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NUMERATE, INC.
    Inventor: Nigel P. Duffy
  • Patent number: 7856321
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for modeling the biological effects of a molecule are disclosed. A machine learning application may be configured to process a set of training examples regarding a biological property of interest. Once trained, the machine learning application may be configured to generate a prediction regarding a property of interest for a test molecule. Embodiments of the invention provide a meta-model configured to generate a biological effect prediction for a molecule based on the predictions generated for the test molecule by a plurality of molecular property models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Numerate, Inc.
    Inventors: Guido Lanza, Nigel P. Duffy, Paul Boardman
  • Publication number: 20100161531
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for modeling molecular properties using data regarding the partial orderings of compound properties, or by considering measurements of compound properties in terms of partial orderings are disclosed. One embodiment provides for constructing such partial orderings from data that is not already in an ordered form by processing training data to produce a partial ordering of the compounds with respect to a property of interest. Another embodiment of the invention may process the modified training data to construct a model that predicts the property of interest for arbitrary compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: NUMERATE, INC.
    Inventor: Nigel P. Duffy
  • Patent number: 7702467
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for modeling molecular properties using data regarding the partial orderings of compound properties, or by considering measurements of compound properties in terms of partial orderings are disclosed. One embodiment provides for constructing such partial orderings from data that is not already in an ordered form by processing training data to produce a partial ordering of the compounds with respect to a property of interest. Another embodiment of the invention may process the modified training data to construct a model that predicts the property of interest for arbitrary compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Numerate, Inc.
    Inventor: Nigel P. Duffy
  • Patent number: 7194359
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for evaluating the accuracy of a molecular model properties model (or predictions generated using a molecular properties model). The accuracy of a molecular properties model may be evaluated using three general approaches, (i) by using the same data set to both train the model and to estimate the accuracy of the model, (ii) by using distinct data sets to train and subsequently test a model, and (iii) by using multiple models (or sets of predictions).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Pharmix Corporation
    Inventors: Nigel P. Duffy, Guido Lanza, Jessen Yu