ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,680, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).

"System and method for generating high-fidelity privacy-conscious synthetic patient data for causal effect estimation with multiple treatments" was invented by Jingpu Shi (Pearland, Texas), Dong Wang (Indianapolis), Gino Tesei (Indianapolis) and Beau Norgeot (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure shows a generated, large-scale and realistic patient dataset that mimics real patient data distributions, supports multiple treatments, and provides ground truth for the effects of these treatments. The datasets generated are of syntheti...