US Patent Issued to Cigna Intellectual Property on Dec. 9 for "System and method for authenticating access to private health information" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,676, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cigna Intellectual Property Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for authenticating access to private health information" was invented by Jonathan Clark (Tolland, Conn.) and Steven J. Mastrianni (Colchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating access to private health information (PHI) includes receiving a converted version of a spoken initiation of a retrieval of PHI. The method also includes requesting out-of-band authentication information from a user. The out-of-band authentication information that is requested contains different information than the spoken...