ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,831, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Welldoc Inc. (Columbia, Md.).

"Systems and methods for creating and selecting models for predicting medical conditions" was invented by Bharath Sudharsan (Baltimore) and Mansur Shomali (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods are disclosed. The methods may include receiving historical data comprising at least one of provider data and patient data, and processing, using a processor, the historical data to identify one or more patterns. The method also may include generating one or more decision models from the historical data and the decision patterns, an...