ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,372, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OPTUM SERVICES (IRELAND) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Dynamic database updates using probabilistic determinations" was invented by Lorcan B. MacManus (County Kildare, Ireland) and Amy Neftzger (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for using machine-learning concepts (e.g., machine learning models) to determine predicted taxonomy-based classification scores for claims and dynamically update data fields based on the same."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/149,954.

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