ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,217, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Evidium Inc. (San Francisco).

"Translation of medical evidence into computational evidence and applications thereof" was invented by Carl Bate (San Francisco), Wian Stipp (San Francisco), Thomas Unger (Tiburon, Calif.), David A. Epstein (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Matthew Mcsorley (Pittsburgh), Fady Nakhla (San Francisco), David Robinson (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jennifer May Lee (London) and Arthur Book (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational evidence platform extracts clinical concepts from medical evidence sources and creates a database of elemental diagnostic factors and eleme...