US Patent Issued to Aetna on Sept. 15 for "Machine learning framework for detection of chronic health conditions" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,381, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aetna Inc. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Machine learning framework for detection of chronic health conditions" was invented by Naiqian Zhi (Hartford, Conn.), Sarah Wohlman (Hartford, Conn.), Alex Xu (Hartford, Conn.), Ryan Berns (Hartford, Conn.), Rajiv Bhan (Hartford, Conn.), Sumeet Kumar (Hartford, Conn.), Alan Leggitt (Hartford, Conn.) and Li Qin (Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for detecting chronic health conditions based on data collected by a wearable device such as an activity tracker or a smart watch. Deep learning algorithms are configured to ...