ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,819, issued on March 3, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for clustering algorithms for data analysis" was invented by Hua Chen (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying relationships between complex datasets and/or high-dimensional datasets for predictive modeling. The method includes clustering data associated with one or more entities in a first dataset based on distance data; clustering the data associated with the one or more entities in a second dataset based on longitudinal data; consolidating the first dataset and the second dataset into...