ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,271, issued on June 10, was assigned to Aktana Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for health care provider engagement" was invented by Gil Blustein (San Francisco), Jin Huang (San Francisco), Marc Cohen (San Francisco) and Wendong Zhu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health care provider (HCP) engagement engine is disclosed. The HCP engagement engine facilitates effective communication between pharmaceutical sales representatives (medical reps) and HCPs by generating, using machine learning algorithms, messages for the medical reps to send to HCPs. The recommended messages may be sent over a network and may inc...