US Patent Issued to Department of Veternas Affairs, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on April 1 for "Treatment of depression using machine learning" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,011, issued on April 1, was assigned to Department of Veternas Affairs (Washington) and Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Treatment of depression using machine learning" was invented by Amit Etkin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhukar Trivedi (Dallas) and Wei Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are, inter alia, methods for identifying subjects suffering from depression that will respond to treatment with an antidepressant."

The patent was filed on Oct. 15, 2019, under Application No. 17/282,624.

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