ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,985, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Machine-learning based irrelevant sentence classifier" was invented by Rajesh Sabapathy (Haryana, India), Chirag Mittal (Haryana, India), Gourav Awasthi (Haryana, India) and Aditya Teja Josyula (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for more effective, efficient, and accurate computer text comprehension. This need is addressed by applying unique text processing techniques to identify and remove irrelevant sentences from a narrative. The text processing techniques include a machine-learning based model that is trained usi...