ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,212, issued on June 17, was assigned to CERNER INNOVATION INC. (Kansas City, Kan.).

"Virtual augmentation of clinical care environments" was invented by Paul Weaver (Overland Park, Kan.), Jay Christopher Vaglio (Mission, Kan.), Anna-Therese Fowler (Leawood, Kan.), Alex Lende (Kansas City, Mo.), Eric A. Wilson (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Mayur Rajendran (Overland Park, Kan.), Grant Taylor Floyd (Kansas City, Mo.) and Matt Ryan Anderson (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for employing virtual environmental augmentation in clinical care environments to enhance a clinician's in-the-moment knowledge, leverage pa...