ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,765, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Machine learning techniques for generating personalized autocomplete prediction" was invented by Laura D. Hamilton (Chicago), Ayush Tomar (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Vinit Garg (Fremont, Calif.) and Lun Yu (San Francisco).

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 personalized autocomplete predictions. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform personalized aut...