ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,027, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Predictive data analysis techniques using a hierarchical risk prediction machine learning framework" was invented by Paul J. Godden (London), Melanie Majerus (Plymouth, Minn.), Ahmed Selim (Dublin), Nancy Joan Mendelsohn (Mendota Heights, Minn.), Erin A. Satterwhite (West Lakeland, Minn.) and Gregory J. Boss (Saginaw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis operations using a hier...