ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,194, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Using natural language processing to find adverse events" was invented by Chen Liu (Danvers, Mass.) and Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically classifying clinical descriptions of patients by a computer processor using natural language processing is provided. The clinical descriptions relate to the use of a ventricular assist device to treat the patient. The method comprises receiving at least one clinical description comprising text. The method also then comprises determining the position of a target word withi...