Optum Assigned Patent

Optum, Inc., Minnetonka, MN, has been assigned a patent (11,204,950) developed by DaBoll-Lavoie, Abigail, Brookline, MA, Jagielo, Deana, Chaska, MN, and McCreary, Daniel George, St. Louis Park, MN, for an “automated concepts for interrogating a document storage database.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Document retrieval from a large document storage database may be facilitated through the use of a search system configured for identifying concepts related to a specific search query provided by a user. Prior to retrieving documents for inclusion in a listing of search results, the terms included within a user-provided search query may be expanded based on relationships between terms represented within a Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestore to generate a semantic search query. Documents linked with one or more of the terms included within the semantic search query are identified and included within the search results.”

The patent application was filed on October 3, 2018 (16/151,092).