US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Aug. 12 for "Treatment of depression using machine learning" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,196, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.), Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Treatment of depression using machine learning" was invented by Amit Etkin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhukar Trivedi (Dallas) and Wei Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are, inter alia, methods for identifying subjects suffering from depression that will respond to treatment with an antidepressant."

The patent was filed...