Investors’ sneak peak: can this AI tool spot the science that will lead to patents?0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• August 20, 2026

The AI tool was trained on scientific publication-patent pairs.Credit: IB Photography/Alamy Investors and technology-transfer offices expend enormous effort trying to spot commercially promising research before it reaches the point of patenting. Now, a machine-learning tool is aiming to speed up this process by scoring how ‘patent-like’ a scientific paper is — months or years before