There was no link to the actual decision in the article, but the summary stated that "patents can be issued only to human inventors and that his AI system could

There was no link to the actual decision in the article, but the summary stated that "patents can be issued only to human inventors and that his AI system could not be considered the legal creator of two inventions that he has said it generated." The same reasoning is widely held in science, i.e. AI cannot claim authorship.