US Patent Issued to Optum on July 22 for "Computer-implemented systems and methods for multi-level data grouping and generation of a hierarchical data display from uniform claims data" (Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,984, issued on July 22, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods for multi-level data grouping and generation of a hierarchical data display from uniform claims data" was invented by Peter N. Toensing (Richfield, Minn.) and Bob Martin (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hierarchical data objects are generated via a computer-based system for applying a series of rules to establish episode-specific data objects reflecting a plurality of discrete claim records before further dissecting the generated episode-specific data objects prior to finalization of those episode-specific ...