The USPTO Rules that an AI-Based System can't be a Legal Inventor

Quite recently, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can't get the credit of a legal inventor in a patent filing. The ruling has come as a response to two Patent Applications filed corresponding to a flashing light and food container, which were created by an AI-based system known as DABUS. The USPTO has presented a lot of arguments concerning the same. The first and foremost argument corresponds to the Patent Law in the US, which repeatedly refers to the patent inventors or innovators by using humanlike pronouns like'himself' and'herself' and terms like'whoever.' The team that filed the patent applications had argued by saying that the patent law's references to an inventor as an'individual' could very well be applied to machines too.