ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,526, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Diabetes complication prediction by health record monitoring" was invented by Takayuki Katsuki (Tokyo), Kohei Miyaguchi (Tokyo), Akira Koseki (Yokohama, Japan) and Toshiya Iwamori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for predicting a medical event time. The method includes receiving an electronic health record (EHR) including a plurality of pairs of observation variables and corresponding timestamps. Each of the plurality of pairs include a respective observation variable and a respective correspon...