US Patent Issued to Optum on Sept. 15 for "Provider activity anomaly detection" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,821, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Provider activity anomaly detection" was invented by Rakesh P A (Karnataka, India), Vijaychandar Natesan (Karnataka, India), Kevin Obrien (Stanton Island, N.Y.), Scott R. Vandeleest (Green Bay, Wis.), Pawan Kumar Pandey (Karnataka, India), Ramesh Rangasamy Ganesan (Karnataka, India), Arun Kumar Kumar (Carmel, Ind.), Guntupalli Sumanth Naga Deepak (Andhra Pradesh, India), Aman Kharb (Haryana, India), Diane T. Smith (Durham, Maine) and Rahimunnisa Pathan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically detecting inactive addresses of...