ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,173, issued on April 15, was assigned to OPTUM INC. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Predicted data use obligation match using data differentiators" was invented by Daniel L. Binkley (Weatogue, Conn.), Lisa A. Hodne (Buffalo, Minn.), Matthew Jon Hartzler (Mound, Minn.) and Majdoddin Izadian (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for predicted data use obligation matching using data differentiators. Example embodiments retrieve a cross-link relationship graph structure from a data repository, where the cross-link relationship graph structure includes a plurality of cross-link relationship graph nodes connected by a pl...