US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips, The University of Chicago on May 6 for "Automated contextual determination of ICD code relevance for ranking and efficient consumption" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,893, issued on May 6, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Automated contextual determination of ICD code relevance for ranking and efficient consumption" was invented by Merlijn Sevenster (Haarlem, Netherlands), Paul Joseph Chang (Chicago) and Amir Mohammad Tahmasebi Maraghoosh (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiology workstation (24) includes at least one display component (30, 32); at least one user input device (28); and at least one microprocessor (26, 34) programmed to generate a contextual ranking of clinical codes for a context received...