Patents by Inventor Steve Eichert

Steve Eichert 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: 12603185
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a heterogenous network and determining diffusion weights of scientific evidence in the heterogenous network. The computer obtains clinical data associated with a clinical network of healthcare providers and scientific data associated with a scientific network of scientists. The computer generates a first graph network representing the clinical network and a second graph network representing the scientific network. The computer identifies a first set of target nodes in the first graph network representing clinical leaders, and a second set of target nodes in the second graph network representing scientific leaders. The computer predicts links connecting the first graph network to the second graph network and generates a heterogenous network with nodes from the first graph network and from the second graph network, and the links connecting the first graph network to the second graph network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: IQVIA INC.
    Inventors: Yanping Liu, Steve Eichert, Yong Cai, Vishwaraj Dilesh Doshi, Tong Wu, Emily Zhao
  • Patent number: 11923074
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for identifying those entities within a network that have the most influence on other entities within the network. A multi-relational network comprising links among a plurality of physicians is generated based on peer network data, wherein each link indicates a first physician that influences a second physician, and a weight of the influence. A decision by a treating physician of the plurality of physicians is decomposed, using a deep learning engine, into a magnitude of peer influence and a magnitude of control factor influence based on the multi-relational network and a plurality of control factors respectively. The magnitude of peer influence among one or more physicians in the multi-relational network is distributed among physicians in the multi-relational network based on the links each physician maintains with other physicians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Ruoxin Li, Yong Cai, John H. Eichert, Jr., Emily Zhao, Yilian Yuan, Yanping Liu, Steve Eichert, D. Bruce West, William McClellan
  • Publication number: 20220262499
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for identifying those entities within a network that have the most influence on other entities within the network. A multi-relational network comprising links among a plurality of physicians is generated based on peer network data, wherein each link indicates a first physician that influences a second physician, and a weight of the influence. A decision by a treating physician of the plurality of physicians is decomposed, using a deep learning engine, into a magnitude of peer influence and a magnitude of control factor influence based on the multi-relational network and a plurality of control factors respectively. The magnitude of peer influence among one or more physicians in the multi-relational network is distributed among physicians in the multi-relational network based on the links each physician maintains with other physicians.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Ruoxin Li, Yong Cai, John H. Eichert, JR., Emily Zhao, Yilian Yuan, Yanping Liu, Steve Eichert, D. Bruce West, William McClellan