ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,172, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Variable confidence machine learning" was invented by Rahul Venkataramani (Bengaluru, India) and Vikram Reddy Melapudi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate variable confidence machine learning are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a medical image. In various aspects, the system can perform, via execution of a machine learning model, a regression task on the medical image, wherein the machine learning model can receive as input both the medical image and a user-specified confidence i...