ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,464, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hanger Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for encoded clinical data communication" was invented by Antony F. W. Ricketts (Reno, Nev.), Barry A. Thomson (Reno, Nev.) and Zlatko L. Hodin (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical communication system includes a first device, which can include one or more processors configured to receive a first command to receive clinical data from a second device, operate, responsive to receiving the first command, an image capture device, detect, by the image capture device, a first image representing the clinical data, identify a first pat...