The guidance document (PDF) specifies that for clear legal reasons, as well as the notion that, fundamentally, 'patents function to incentivize and reward human ingenuity,' only 'natural humans' can be awarded patents.
The USPTO guidance makes it clear that while AI-assisted inventions are not 'categorically unpatentable,' AI systems themselves are not individuals and therefore cannot be inventors, legally speaking.
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