ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,608, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Personalized smart provider search" was invented by Lakshmi Manohar Akella (Naperville, Ill.), Adarsh Ramesh (Schaumburg, Conn.), Gregory Andrew Allard (East Lyme, Conn.), Shawn Wang (Kildeer, Ill.) and Ariel Bayewitz (Teaneck, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect there is a method for recommending one or more providers to a member. The method may comprise at a server, receiving, from a member computing device via a provider search interface, a provider request including a member identifier and member specified criteria. Retrieving one or more ...