ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,262, issued on July 22, was assigned to Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Feature selection based at least in part on temporally static feature selection criteria and temporally dynamic feature selection criteria" was invented by Ciaran McKenna (Dublin), Eugene E. Farrell (County Galway, Ireland) and Kaj K. Poulsen (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need to accurate and efficient feature selection. In one example, embodiments comprise, determining refined statically eligible feature category combinations and refined dynamically eligible feature category combinations. One or more refined eligible feature...