ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,895, issued on July 29, was assigned to Change Healthcare Holdings LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for event correlation and tracking in a multi-stakeholder environment" was invented by Andre Viljoen (North Vancouver, Canada) and Arien Malec (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an event tracking query for a patient health care transaction from a requestor; receiving state transition updates for the event from ones of a plurality of different transaction processing entities that are independently controlled with respect to each other; mapping the state tra...