Expert: When an AI Invents Something, It Should be Credited as the Inventor

Patents are given to inventions, which are usually the product of a human mind. But what about inventions that come from not-so-human sources, like artificial intelligence (AI)? Should these patents be awarded to their computer inventors? Well, at least one expert patent attorney thinks so. Ryan Abbott is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey's School of Law, and he is a patent attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He is also an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA--quite the list of credentials, to be sure.