US Patent Issued to LeanTaaS on June 3 for "Predicting surgical case lengths using machine learning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,500, issued on June 3, was assigned to LeanTaaS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Predicting surgical case lengths using machine learning" was invented by Zetong Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The prediction system accesses a flowchart of questions relating to surgical cases and receives, for each of set of surgical case identifiers, surgical case information and an actual surgical case length. The prediction system trains a machine learning model to predict surgical case lengths using the surgical case information and prunes the flowchart by removing questions associated with a uniform set of answers. The prediction ...