ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,007, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Temporal sequence causal transformer machine learning model" was invented by Dominik Roman Christian Dahlem (Dublin), Vijay S. Nori (Roswell, Ga.), Eran Halperin (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Nadav Rakocz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating a prediction output comprising one or more actions by receiving data associated with encounters in a tuple form, tokenizing the encounters, training a causa...