ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,670, issued on July 14, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Predictive model for medical signatures" was invented by Buddhadeb Karmakar (Leander, Texas) and Murlidhar Loka (Breinigsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predicting medical signatures are provided. The methods and systems access a communication comprising a medicinal drug prescription associated with a patient, the medicinal drug prescription being provided in the communication by a healthcare professional. The methods and systems process, by a first machine learning model, the communication to extract a p...