ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,928, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Dynamic healthcare system for spasmodic clinical workflows" was invented by Manikandan Rajappa (North Wales, Pa.) and Shantha Andrews (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A healthcare system accommodates spasmodic clinical workflows for populating a records database associated with a surgical platform or other digital healthcare platform. An interoperability engine receives data streams including events from various electronic health records systems that provide data events according to varying format, order, and timing dependent on their corresponding clin...