ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,832, issued on April 8, was assigned to Tempus AI Inc. (Chicago).

"Artificial intelligence engine for directed hypothesis generation and ranking" was invented by Martin Stumpe (Chicago) and Alena Harley (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence engine for directed hypothesis generation and ranking uses multiple heterogeneous knowledge graphs integrating disease-specific multi-omic data specific to a patient or cohort of patients. The engine also uses a knowledge graph representation of 'what the world knows' in the relevant bio-medical subspace. The engine applies a hypothesis generation module, a semantic se...