US Patent Issued to UnitedHealth Group on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for medical fraud detection" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,490, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for medical fraud detection" was invented by Thomas R. Gilbertson (Cromwell, Conn.), Raja Mukherji (Dublin), Karen M. Harte (Avon, Conn.), Nasim Mahmud (Dublin), Ryan A. Berberian (Dallas), John J. Westhoff (Redding, Calif.), Gregory H. Lyon (Lakeville, Minn.) and John B. Cooley (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining fraudulent entities. The method includes retrieving characteristics data associated with known fraudulent entities. A first graph is generated based on the c...