AI Inventorship : News & Insight : Resources : Venner Shipley

In a test case for these issues, a team led by Professor Ryan Abbott at the University of Surrey has filed several patent applications for inventions which they claim were invented by an AI named DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience). The inventions in question are a'Fractal Container' and a'Neural Flame'. Patent applications to both of these inventions have been filed with the UK IPO, USPTO and EPO. PCT applications to these inventions have also been filed. The'Fractal Container' patent application relates to a container having a wall with a fractal profile.