ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,044, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Artificial intelligence prediction of prostate cancer outcomes" was invented by Craig Mermel (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yun Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Naren Manoj (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Symonds (Mountain View, Calif.), Martin Stumpe (Mountain View, Calif.), Lily Peng (Mountain View, Calif.), Kunal Nagpal (Mountain View, Calif.), Ellery Wulczyn (Mountain View, Calif.), Davis Foote (Mountain View, Calif.), David F. Steiner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for AI predicti...