ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,096, issued on March 24, was assigned to Aon Global Operations SE, Singapore Branch (Singapore).

"Modeling and benchmarking health care affordability and availability" was invented by Ronald J. Ozminkowski (Saline, Mich.), Yifei Dai (Chicago), Geoffrey Kuhn (Singapore), Xiang Ying Ho (Singapore), Jonathan Bowen (Denver), Todor Penev (Atlanta), Weiyee Lee (Singapore), Leanne Metcalfe (Cedar Creek, Texas), Andrew C. Rallis (Singapore) and Eric Peng (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for modeling health care affordability across a population includes segmenting the populati...