US Patent Issued to egnite on March 17 for "Systems and methods for natural language processing-based classification of electronic medical records" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,057, issued on March 17, was assigned to egnite Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for natural language processing-based classification of electronic medical records" was invented by Kahla Verhoef (San Clemente, Calif.) and Michelle Kwon (Wayne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable improved natural language processing of patient-related medical information for clinical decision support. To do so, a processor receives patient data including a written report, and accesses a dictionary of terminology associated with a disease. The terminology includes descriptors indicati...