ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,825, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ALDEN SCIENTIFIC INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for collecting and analyzing comprehensive medical information" was invented by James A. Heywood (Newton, Mass.), Paul J. Wicks (Alrewas, Great Britain), Kimberley K. Goodwin (Oakland, Calif.) and Renee Deehan-Kenney (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for collecting, analyzing, and reporting information relating to comprehensive medical information from one or more users are disclosed. In some aspects, a system for collecting and analyzing medical data includes a data management system for collect...