US Patent Issued to Humana on Oct. 21 for "Neural network based determination of evidence relevant for answering natural language questions" (Kentucky, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,434, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Humana Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Neural network based determination of evidence relevant for answering natural language questions" was invented by Ayman Ashour (Louisville, Ky.), Tiffany Fair Shaffer (Greenville, Ind.) and Gregory F. Hayworth (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system makes evidence-based decision for actions associated with a user. The system receives information describing an action associated with the user. The system receives documents associated with the user and questions associated with the action. For each of the plurality of questions the system performs t...