US Patent Issued to Aetna on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for predicting health outcomes" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,004, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Aetna Inc. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for predicting health outcomes" was invented by Naiqian Zhi (Hartford, Conn.), Sarah Wohlman (Hartford, Conn.), Alex Xu (Hartford, Conn.), Ryan Berns (Hartford, Conn.) and Rajiv Bhan (Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for predicting short term health outcomes based on data collected by a wearable device such as an activity tracker or a smart watch. Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are configured to process an input vector that includes monitored parameter data collected by the wearable device ...