ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,274, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"De-duplication and contextually-intelligent recommendations based on natural language understanding of conversational sources" was invented by Leo V. Perez (Platte City, Mo.), Justin Morrison (Kansas City, Kan.), Tanuj Gupta (Leawood, Kan.), Joe Geris (Kansas City, Kan.), Rachel Gegen (Overland Park, Kan.), Jacob Geers (Kansas City, Kan.), Gyandeep Singh (Olathe, Kan.) and Emin Agassi (Blue Bell, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein that provide a comprehensive view that reveals all or nea...