ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,380, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHENZHEN KEYA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for simultaneous classification and regression of clinical data" was invented by Xin Wang (Seattle), Youbing Yin (Kenmore, Wash.), Bin Kong (Charlotte, N.C.), Yi Lu (Seattle), Xinyu Guo (Redmond, Wash.), Hao-Yu Yang (Seattle) and Qi Song (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure discloses a method for analyzing clinical data. The Method includes extracting a first feature information by applying a neural network to the clinical data; predicting a disease status related parameter by applying a regression model to ...