US Patent Issued to HealthStream on Aug. 12 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for improved tracking of state data" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,811, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HealthStream Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for improved tracking of state data" was invented by Nataraja Thuppanna (Morrisville, N.C.), Ismael Cruz (Durham, N.C.) and Debora Sinclair (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product is provided for tracking state data of objects during a session, and saving the data to a database. The tracking may be performed by a reusable set of computer program code accessible by a plurality of user interface applications. Temporary data may be stored as insert objects, ...