ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,929, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CERNER INNOVATION INC. (Kansas City, Kan.).

"Revenue cycle workforce management" was invented by Brian Streich (Kansas City, Mo.), Kelley Bergstrom (Kansas City, Kan.), Mark Sullivan (Kansas City, Kan.) and Michael D. Myers (Kansas City, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Inventory input is received from a revenue cycle management system. The inventory input includes inventory in the ...