Patents
US 12456150 B1: Methods and apparatus to estimate costs of prescriptions
- Granted
- 2025-10-28
- Filed
- 2023-05-10 application 18195762
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to estimate costs of prescriptions are disclosed herein. An example system to estimate a cost of a prescription for a medication includes receiving a prescription for a medication for a patient, receiving a request for an estimated cost for the prescription for the patient from an entity, forming an input vector including prescription information for the received prescription and payor information for the patient, processing the input vector for the received prescription with a trained machine learning model to determine the estimated cost of the medication for the patient, updating the machine learning model based upon computed differences between predicted costs determined by the machine learning model and actual sold costs for the plurality of sold prescriptions, providing the estimated cost to a user device, and deploying the updated machine learning model.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg251028.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WALGREEN CO. 344 patents | US company or organization | Deerfield, IL | WALGREEN CO SEC filer EXACT medium confidence: identical full name, one of each nationally | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Salud | Chicago, IL | 8 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| August Karlstedt | San Diego, CA | 4 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06Q | Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes; systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not otherwise provided for | G06Q40/08 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06N | Computing arrangements based on specific computational models | G06N20/00 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G16H | Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical or healthcare data | G16H20/10 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-13 | Security interest Security interest Intellectual property security agreement | WALGREEN CO. signed 2026-02-13 | SIXTH STREET LENDING PARTNERS, AS COLLATERAL AGENT DALLAS, TX | 74853/261 | PASDL, file of 2026-10-15 |
| 2026-02-13 | Security interest Security interest Intellectual property security agreement | WALGREEN CO. signed 2026-02-13 | WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT BOSTON, MA | 74853/150 | PASDL, file of 2026-10-15 |
| 2025-08-28 | Security interest Security interest Security interest | WALGREEN CO. signed 2025-08-28 DUANE READE signed 2025-08-28 WALGREENS SPECIALTY PHARMACY LLC signed 2025-08-28 WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE, INC. signed 2025-08-28 | WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT BOSTON, MA | 72679/926 | PASDL, file of 2026-10-16 |
| 2025-08-28 | Security interest Security interest Intellectual property security agreement | WALGREEN CO. signed 2025-08-28 | SIXTH STREET LENDING PARTNERS, AS COLLATERAL AGENT DALLAS, TX | 72606/878 | PASDL, file of 2026-10-16 |
| 2024-03-27 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | SALUD, LAWRENCE signed 2019-07-17 KARLSTEDT, AUGUST signed 2019-07-24 | WALGREEN CO. DEERFIELD, IL | 66919/173 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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