ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,824, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Framework for constrained adaptive group testing" was invented by Ameen Eetemadi (Davis, Calif.) and Ilias Tagkopoulos (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system and method for determining potency of lifestyle interventions. For a set of lifestyle interventions (LIs), a potency probability is estimated for each LI. A catalog is generated to include data associated with the set of LIs. The set of LIs is partitioned into a plurality of disjoint sets of LIs based on the catalog and the estimated potency p...