US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation, University of Maryland, College Park on Oct. 6 for "Predictive models for infectious diseases" (Florida, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,849, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.) and University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Predictive models for infectious diseases" was invented by Antarpreet S. Jutla (Gainesville, Fla.), Moiz Usmani (Gainesville, Fla.) and Rita Colwell (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for predicting the occurrence of an outbreak of an infectious disease. One such method includes acquiring environmental risk factor data associated with a particular disease, wherein the environmental risk factor data corr...