Patents by Inventor DAVID BLAKE WERTS

DAVID BLAKE WERTS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11967404
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining the medical condition of the individual based at least in part on a personal identifier associated with the individual, the medical condition being determined by performing natural language processing of medical information associated with the individual. The method further includes obtaining characteristics of the plurality of items. The method further includes comparing the characteristics of the plurality of items to a restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual. The method further includes, responsive to determining that at least one of the characteristics of the plurality of items violates the restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual, preventing the individual from obtaining the item of the plurality of items associated with the violation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Robert Christian Sizemore, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Werts
  • Patent number: 11520985
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for performing named entity recognition. Aspects include obtaining a text having a plurality of words and comparing each of the plurality of words to a dictionary. Aspects also include creating, based on the comparison, an annotation for at least one of the plurality of words that the least one of the plurality of words refers to a named entity. Aspects further include parsing the text to identify a part of speech for each of the plurality of words and removing the annotations from each of the at least one of the plurality of words that has a part of speech that is not one or a noun and a noun supporting adjective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Christian Sizemore, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Gerard Herbeck, David Blake Werts
  • Patent number: 11397862
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a natural language processing (NLP) annotator, an input text that is to be annotated. The method further includes determining, by the NLP annotator, a user setting that indicates an aggressiveness level of annotation to be used to annotate the input text. The method further includes selecting, by the NLP annotator, from a plurality of dictionaries, a first dictionary based at least in part on the aggressiveness level. The method further includes generating, by the NLP annotator, annotated text of the input text based at least in part on the first dictionary. The method further includes outputting, by the NLP annotator, the annotated text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Christian Sizemore, David Blake Werts, Kristin E. McNeil, Sterling Richardson Smith
  • Publication number: 20220028543
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include receiving, by a processor, a procedure code for a patient, wherein the procedure code is associated with a medical device, obtaining, by the processor, patient medical data for the patient, analyzing the patient medical data to identify one or more patient medical conditions and one or more other procedure codes, determining a risk score for the procedure code based on the one or more patient medical conditions and the one or more other procedure codes, and enacting an action based at least in part on the risk score for the procedure code
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Christian Sizemore, David Blake Werts, Sterling Richardson Smith, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Publication number: 20220027571
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a natural language processing (NLP) annotator, an input text that is to be annotated. The method further includes determining, by the NLP annotator, a user setting that indicates an aggressiveness level of annotation to be used to annotate the input text. The method further includes selecting, by the NLP annotator, from a plurality of dictionaries, a first dictionary based at least in part on the aggressiveness level. The method further includes generating, by the NLP annotator, annotated text of the input text based at least in part on the first dictionary. The method further includes outputting, by the NLP annotator, the annotated text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Christian Sizemore, David Blake Werts, Kristin E. McNeil, Sterling Richardson Smith
  • Patent number: 11033239
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating alerts based on potential health conflicts are described. The described systems and methods may provide for identifying unstructured text from a physical environment, performing natural language processing on the unstructured text to produce annotated text, comparing the annotated text to patient medical information to find a potential conflict, and generating an alert based on the potential conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bhargav Cheenepalli, Kristin E. McNeil, Stephen Douglas Bowman, David Blake Werts
  • Publication number: 20210090196
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for transportation services using text analytics are described. The method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium may provide for inputting a text corpus comprising patient medical information, performing text analytics on the text corpus, determining if the patient has a need for transportation assistance based on the performed text analytics, and notifying a transportation service of the need for transportation assistance based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Bhargav Cheenepalli, David Blake Werts, Stephen Douglas Bowman, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Publication number: 20210085261
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating alerts based on potential health conflicts are described. The described systems and methods may provide for identifying unstructured text from a physical environment, performing natural language processing on the unstructured text to produce annotated text, comparing the annotated text to patient medical information to find a potential conflict, and generating an alert based on the potential conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: BHARGAV CHEENEPALLI, Kristin E. McNeil, Stephen Douglas Bowman, David Blake Werts
  • Publication number: 20210074392
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining the medical condition of the individual based at least in part on a personal identifier associated with the individual, the medical condition being determined by performing natural language processing of medical information associated with the individual. The method further includes obtaining characteristics of the plurality of items. The method further includes comparing the characteristics of the plurality of items to a restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual. The method further includes, responsive to determining that at least one of the characteristics of the plurality of items violates the restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual, preventing the individual from obtaining the item of the plurality of items associated with the violation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Robert Christian Sizemore, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Werts
  • Publication number: 20210043289
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, system and computer program products for identifying adverse effects of medications. Aspects include obtaining a plurality of medical records for an individual, at least one of the plurality of medical records including a medication prescribed to the individual. Aspects also include creating annotations for each medical record by performing natural language processing on the medical record, wherein the annotations include a date associated with the medical record. Aspects further include grouping medications prescribed to the individual into two groups based on the annotations, the groups including a first group of medications that the individual is currently prescribed and the second group of medications that the individual does not have a current prescription for. Aspects also include identifying a known adverse interaction between one of the first group of medications and one of the second group of medications and notifying the individual of the known adverse interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: ROBERT CHRISTIAN SIZEMORE, STERLING RICHARDSON SMITH, KRISTIN E. MCNEIL, DAVID BLAKE WERTS
  • Publication number: 20210034702
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for performing named entity recognition. Aspects include obtaining a text having a plurality of words and comparing each of the plurality of words to a dictionary. Aspects also include creating, based on the comparison, an annotation for at least one of the plurality of words that the least one of the plurality of words refers to a named entity. Aspects further include parsing the text to identify a part of speech for each of the plurality of words and removing the annotations from each of the at least one of the plurality of words that has a part of speech that is not one or a noun and a noun supporting adjective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: ROBERT CHRISTIAN SIZEMORE, STERLING RICHARDSON SMITH, DAVID GERARD HERBECK, DAVID BLAKE WERTS