They go on to say that AI may «provide services and generate ideas, but they remain tools used by the human inventor who conceived the claimed invention.»
Therefore, AI itself can’t be considered an inventor under current U.S. laws, the document says.
In a departure from Biden administration policies, where AI could be considered a co-inventor, the patent office now says «there is no separate or modified standard for AI-assisted inventions.»
That should mean that using AI to concieve of an invention means the user gets the patent, as with any other tool. This has yet to be tested in U.S. courts, Reuters reports.
Read more: The patent notice, writeups by Reuters, Engadget.