ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,216, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Behavioral Health Operations LLC (North Richland Hills, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for determining a code as a function of subject data" was invented by Blake Browder (Dallas) and Joy Figarsky (Little Rock, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for determining a code as a function of subject data. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to collect subject data, receive user input associated with the subject data, determine, using a first encoder, portions of the us...