Large language model company focused on security Hippocratic AI received his first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company’s LLM innovations incorporated into its security-focused LLM, built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris.
Hippocratic AI’s generative AI solution focuses on non-diagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation, hospital and payer policy issues, and EHR support.
The patent covers the company’s Polaris system, which includes its core model and the supporting models that make up its low-latency conversational AI system suitable for healthcare applications.
The company’s core model includes its Conversation Interface, a custom-trained LLM that uses clinical techniques to ensure patient compliance.
Its support models include various LLMs that analyze patient responses to ensure their safety and that the patient has not indicated that they would knowingly or unknowingly perform activities harmful to themselves, such as exceeding the amount of medication recommended by their provider.
Specific applications of the patent include admission tasks, preventive checks, scheduling and waitlist tasks, preoperative tasks, discharge tasks, insurance billing, and chronic care management tasks .
“Our first patent granted! …And it’s important. The constellation architecture is at the heart of the security of our system. Our system of multiple hardening LLMs is how we have made our product extremely secure”, Munjal Shah, co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, said in a LinkedIn Post.
“Since we released our Polaris Architect 1.0 (and now 2.0), it has become a technique used by many other Agentic AI products. We are proud to say that the USPTO has recognized our innovation and pioneering status. I wanted to congratulate our crazy intelligence and creativity on this patent.”
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In September, Hippocratic AI announced by MobiHealthNews that it was partnering with Adtalem Global Education to create an academic program to train and certify clinicians on the use of AI in healthcare.
The company has partnered with Adtalem Chamberlain University and Walden University to jointly develop a curriculum and certification program that helps nurses understand how to effectively use, integrate and supervise AI systems in health care.
In February, the company also announced that it launch a nurses advisory council which will work collaboratively with its physician advisory board to ensure the safe development of its LLMs aimed at increasing equity of care, the supply and availability of healthcare workers, and improved access and health care outcomes.
The company launched in May last year with $50 million in seed funding in a round stuck by General catalyst And Andreessen Horowitz. The company added $15 million in funding for its seed round two months later.
Earlier this year, Hippocratic AI closed an oversubscribed market $53 million Series A funding roundbringing its valuation to $500 million.
Last month, the company announced that it added $17 million in investment to its extended and closed Series A round with participation from NVentures (the venture capital arm of NVIDIA), Greycroft and LeoShapiro of 7Wire Ventures. This additional investment brought the company’s total raise to $137 million.
