ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,911, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Querying and analysis of clinical trials using probabilistic graphical models" was invented by Harsh Shrivastava (Redmond, Wash.), Urszula Stefania Chajewska (Issaquah, Wash.) and Muhammad Arrabi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that provide querying and analysis of clinical trials using probabilistic graphical models. The methods and systems train a probabilistic graphical model using clinical trial data and use the probabilistic graphical model to perform inferences in res...