ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,878, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Reinforcement learning machine learning models for intervention recommendation" was invented by V Kishore Ayyadevara (Hyderabad, India), Rohan Khilnani (Jaipur, India), Swaroop S. Shekar (Mysore, India), Raghav Bali (Delhi, India), Joseph C. Cremaldi (Memphis, Tenn.), Fritz T. Wilhelm (Irvine, Calif.) and Vinod Burugupalli (Tampa, Fla.).

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 intervention recommendation operations. Certain...