Artificially intelligent machines cannot be named inventors on patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday, bringing a high-profile legal debate to an apparent end.

A Federal Circuit panel led by Judge Leonard Stark ruled—as the USPTO and U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema did before him—that the plain language of the Patent Act requires that inventors be natural persons.

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