US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Aug. 12 for "Data processing system for detecting health risks and causing treatment responsive to the detection" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,179, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Data processing system for detecting health risks and causing treatment responsive to the detection" was invented by Alexander Davis (Pittsburgh), Tamar Priya Krishnamurti (Pittsburgh) and Kristen Allen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is configured to identify treatment responsive to a health risk determined from feature data provided by one or more networked data sources. A classification engine generates a feature vector based on a natural language processing (NLP) of input data representing words provided by a user...