ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,002, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Health Science Partners LLC (San Diego).

"Telemedicine platform including virtual assistance" was invented by Scott Corlett (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telemedicine platform utilizes artificial intelligence to match patients with practitioners. The platform includes a virtual assistant operable to automatically generate responses to a patient using machine learning in order to further identify details regarding the patient's symptoms and needs. The virtual assistant includes a digitally generated human face that automatically adapts mouth-movements and facial expressions to match ...