ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,006, issued on May 27, was assigned to MatrixCare Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Machine learning for activity monitoring and validity identification" was invented by Jill Liila (Chaska, Minn.), Nate Sukhtipyaroge (Eagan, Minn.) and Margaret Anhalt (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved machine learning are provided. Activity data describing an activity for a financial account of a resident in a residential care facility is received, and a set of attributes corresponding to the activity is extracted from the activity data, comprising determining a first attribute of the set of attributes by processing un...