ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,212, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Japan).

"Medical event prediction using a personalized dual-channel combiner network" was invented by Jingchao Ni (Princeton, N.J.), Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Takayoshi Asakura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting an occurrence of a medical event for a patient using a trained neural network. Historical patient data is preprocessed to generate normalized training samples, and the normalized training samples are sent to a personalized deep convolutional neural network for model pretraining and updatin...