ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,904, issued on May 27, was assigned to GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE LLC (Louisville, Colo.).

"Routing business documents based on events" was invented by Steve Cochran (Niwot, Colo.), Hatem El-Sebaaly (Houston), Greg Wilson (Superior, Colo.), Paul Knuth (Louisville, Colo.) and Chad Maloney (Edwardsville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing business to business communications may include an event generation unit configured to create a first event based on receiving a purchase order from a client. The system may also include an event detection unit in communication with the event generation unit, the event detection...