When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

The advent of generative artificial intelligence has sent shock waves across industries, from the technical to the creative. AI systems that can generate viable computer code, write news stories and spin up professional-looking graphics have inspired countless headlines asking whether they will take away jobs in technology, journalism and design, among many other fields.

And these new ways of doing work and making things raise another question: In the era of AI, what does it mean to…