Computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions rejected by US Supreme Court.

The US Supreme Court has rejected computer scientist Stephen Thaler's appeal against the US Patent and Trademark Office's refusal to issue patents for inventions created by his artificial intelligence system. Thaler's DABUS system created unique prototypes for a beverage holder and emergency light beacon entirely on its own. The US Patent and Trademark Office and a federal judge rejected his patent applications for the inventions on the grounds that DABUS is not a person. The patent-focused US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld those decisions last year and said US patent law unambiguously requires inventors to be human beings.