ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,629, issued on June 10, was assigned to Catholic Health Initiatives (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for virtually integrated care delivery" was invented by Kathleen D. Sanford (Olalla, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for virtually integrated care delivery. In one implementation, a provider controller is disposed in a virtual care command center and has a provider care delivery interface. Patient controllers and provider user devices are in communication with the provider controller over a network and are each associated with a patient room and have a patient care delivery interfa...