US Patent Issued to Optum on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for detecting usage of undermaintained open-source packages and versions" (Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,462, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for detecting usage of undermaintained open-source packages and versions" was invented by Anne Jackson (Waban, Mass.), Nicolaus Christiaan Thirion (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Ziqian Huang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Jack R. Freier (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for identifying stale or vibrant open-source packages by training a predictive machine learning model with a labeled dataset, wherein the la...