ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,514, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BRIGADE AGENCY SERVICES LLC (New York).

"Method for diagnosis and documentation of healthcare information" was invented by Ralph de la Torre (Boston) and Justine M. Carr (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for developing codes and a cross functional set of rules that suggest to a physician, in real-time, potential diagnoses related to diagnostic results or other clinical data entered into the electronic Medical Record (EMR). The method generates a possible diagnosis for consideration and addition to the patient problem list. When the physician selects a suggested diagn...