ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,924, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Change Healthcare Holdings LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for providing medical studies" was invented by Eldon A. Wong (Vancouver, Canada), Gheorghe Cristian Bonciu (Coquitlam, Canada), Fenny Thomas (Burnaby, Canada), Geoff Murray (Richmond, Canada), Paul van Hulsen (Vancouver, Canada), Yong Leonardo Xiao (Richmond, Canada) and Paul Sik Leung Shum (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to improve the transfer of studies to a viewing application through a network, a cloud-based system is provided that optimizes the performance of imaging workflows. A client side...