ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,388, issued on May 13, was assigned to 98point6 Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for automated patient interaction" was invented by Damon Lanphear (Vashon Island, Wash.), Keith Trnka (Seattle) and Robbie Schwietzer (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for automated patient interaction. The method includes parsing a patient complaint comprising a plurality of words, determining a subset of patient queries from a plurality of patient queries based on the patient complaint and patient data, communicating the subset of patient queries to a first computing device; receiving, from t...