ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,753, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Pharmacy benefit management machine learning systems and methods" was invented by John Ciliberti (Sparta, N.J.), Amit Gollapudi (Austin, Texas) and Richard Ball (Fair Lawn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning process for use with a pharmacy benefits management system. The machine learning process identifies a first predicted set of drug benefit claims impacted by a pricing error, reprices a sample of the first predicted set of drug benefit claims to adjust for the error, and trains a predictive model as a function of ...