US Patent Issued to Evernorth Strategic Development on March 4 for "Drug alternative recommendation engine for real-time prescription benefit requests" (Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,630, issued on March 4, was assigned to Evernorth Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Drug alternative recommendation engine for real-time prescription benefit requests" was invented by Amit K. Bothra (Wildwood, Mo.), Aanal Patel (Bridgewater, N.J.), Daniel C. Casper (Ellisville, Mo.), Pritesh J. Shah (Paramus, N.J.), Jonelle Lofton (Florissant, Mo.), John J. Felo II (Pipersville, Pa.) and Gaspar Reyes (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a prescription benefit request and identifying one or more covered alternative drugs. The method also includes identifying one or more additional alterna...