US Patent Issued to Optum on April 1 for "Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for intent-driven query processing" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,565, issued on April 1, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for intent-driven query processing" was invented by Laura D. Hamilton (Chicago), Vinit Garg (Fremont, Calif.) and Ayush Tomar (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide query processing techniques for generating optimized query results. The techniques include generating using a machine learning framework, one or more predictions for a natural language query. The one or more predictions may include an intent prediction and an event prediction. The tec...