ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,766, issued on March 4.

"System and method for decreasing data transfer between computing devices" was invented by Robert B. Hanson (Mobile, Ala.), Dean Kei Naritoku (Mobile, Ala.), Peter Pronovost (Novelty, Ala.), Taylor Ann Peake (Birmingham, Ala.), Matthew Frank Clark (Birmingham, Ala.) and Emily Leithauser Hart (Bessemer, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securely displaying patient data within a plurality of display windows of a display is provided. Additionally, the system is configured to reduce the amount of data transferred between the various computing devices in order to reduce strain on a network...