US Patent Issued to Optum on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for pill identification based on image and user claims data" (Illinois, Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,773, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for pill identification based on image and user claims data" was invented by Laura D. Hamilton (Chicago), Vinit Garg (Fremont, Calif.), Ayush Tomar (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Fazle Shahnawaz Muhibul Karim (Chicago) and Chenwei Liu (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for pill identification based on image and user claims data are provided. A pill identification request, including one or more images of a pill and a user identifier of a user associated with the pill, is received. A first machine learning system is used...