US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Pattern discovery, prediction and causal effect estimation in treatment discontinuation" (Kenyan, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,564, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Pattern discovery, prediction and causal effect estimation in treatment discontinuation" was invented by Celia Cintas (Nairobi, Kenya), Victor Abayomi Akinwande (Karen, Kenya), Aisha Walcott (Nairobi, Kenya), Ramya Raghavendra (New York) and Komminist Weldemariam (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a trained, computerized discontinuation predictor machine learning component (MLC), predict, based on an input time series, a time when a subject will discontinue a course of medical treatment; with a trained, computerized pattern behavior...