ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,336, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Cardiac Diagnostics Inc. (Rochester, Minn.).

"Care plan administration: patient feedback" was invented by Richard D. Dettinger (Rochester, Minn.), Richard M. Smith (Oronoco, Minn.) and Scott J. Burrichter (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for administering a care plan for a patient. A monitoring device is selected, at a care plan management system based on a care plan, to use in administering the care plan. The care plan specifies biometric data to monitor for a patient. The monitoring device is configured to collect the biometric data, based on the car...