ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,863, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ALTERA DIGITAL HEALTH INC. (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).

"Electronic health records agent application for highlighting contextually relevant information" was invented by Eli Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved electronic health records agent application (EHR agent) is disclosed herein. A server EHR agent receives an identifier for a healthcare worker and an identifier for a patient from a client computing device. The server EHR agent retrieves an audit table for the healthcare worker using the identifier for the healthcare worker and a virtual patient object (VPO) for ...