ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,220, issued on June 17, was assigned to CERNER INNOVATION INC. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Clinical decision support system using phenotypic features" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle), John Christopher Murrish (Overland Park, Kan.) and Kanakasabha Kailasam (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for determining and ascribing clinical conditions or diagnoses to patients and provide them to a caregiver, such as attending clinicians or other appropriate health services personnel. In particular, embodiments of the disclosure determine likely phenotypic findings t...