US Patent Issued to Optum on April 29 for "Behavior deviation detection with activity timing prediction" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,456, issued on April 29, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Behavior deviation detection with activity timing prediction" was invented by Megan O'Brien (Kildare, Ireland), Damian Kelly (Kildare, Ireland), Gregory Buckley (Dublin) and Colleen B. Caveney (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing entities, and/or the like, for identifying deviated behavior of an individual indicated by outlying activity counts and outlying activity timings classified by a prediction interval profile generated from historical behavior data. In an embodiment, an example me...