ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,978, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for determining multi-party colocation" was invented by Daniel Aycock (Kansas City, Mo.), Mario Manese (Kansas City, Mo.) and Colin Wurtz (Prairie Village, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for analyzing amounts of time spent by clinicians caring for patients. Clinician locations, patient locations, patient data, and clinician electronic health record activity may be used to facilitate generation of one or more predictive models. Such predictive models will prov...