ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,190,062, issued on Jan. 7, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Natural language processing techniques using hybrid reason code prediction machine learning frameworks" was invented by Suman Roy (Bangalore, India), Thomas G. Sullivan (St. Paul, Minn.), Vijay Varma Malladi (Hyderabad, India), Matthew J. Stewart (Plymouth, Minn.), Abraham Gebru Tesfay (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Gaurav Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing natural language processing operations us...