ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,864, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to inFormed Consent LLC (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Informed patient consent through video tracking" was invented by Daniel R. Kloster (Fairway, Kan.) and Jason Blake Penrod (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable media for obtaining the informed consent of a patient for a medical procedure. Specifically, a video describing a medical procedure may be provided to the patient through a client device having two display portions. As the video is playing in a first portion, the client device may capture the patient watching the video and display the capture...