ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,093, issued on June 23, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Systems for machine-learned resource availability determination for a population" was invented by David Lucero (Queens, N.Y.), Andrew Vinson (Jackson Heights, N.Y.), Samuel Affare (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Alexi E. Makarkin (Rolla, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a social health score for a region includes receiving first data for a geographical area. The first data includes values for multiple features corresponding to multiple domains (such as economic, education, and environmental). The method includes, for a firs...