US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 4 for "Named-entity recognition of protected health information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,484, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Named-entity recognition of protected health information" was invented by Jesse Mie Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ashwin Kumar Kannan (San Francisco), Anirudh Mittal (Fremont, Calif.), William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.) and Naresh Kumar Venkata Guntupalli (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A named-entity recognition (NER) model detects named entities with types that correspond to protected health information (PHI) in potentially sensitive documents. The NER model is trained to detect named entities corresponding to both per...