ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,433, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Techniques for data clustering and outcome generation using a machine-learned architecture" was invented by Sheng Ren (Irvine, Calif.), Michael P. Lahm (Minneapolis) and Lilian Z. Lingcaro (Mandaue, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data clustering and outcome generation may comprise determining a state sequence associated with a sample of one or more samples that satisfies an occurrence threshold and generating one or more timing features for the state sequence. The techniques may further comprise clustering, by executing a machine-lea...