ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,356, issued on March 25, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Machine learning techniques for optimized equipment allocation" was invented by Jon Kevin Muse (Thompsons Station, Tenn.), Gregory J. Boss (Saginaw, Mich.), Rama S. Ravindranathan (Edison, N.J.) and Marilyn L. Gordon (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing optimized equipment allocation. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products t...