ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,778, issued on July 1, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"AI-based condition classification system for patients with novel coronavirus" was invented by Ye Yuan (Hubei, China), Chuan Sun (Hubei, China), Li Yan (Hubei, China), Hui Xu (Hubei, China), Maolin Wang (Hubei, China), Yuqi Guo (Hubei, China), Xiuchuan Tang (Hubei, China), Haitao Zhang (Hubei, China) and Yang Xiao (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses an AI-based condition classification system for patients with novel coronavirus, which includes: a classification model acquisition module for training one...