ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,206, issued on May 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Clinical documentation system" was invented by David Sontag (Brookline, Mass.), Luke Scott Murray (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Divya Gopinath (Millwood, N.Y.), Monica Nayan Agrawal (Boston), David R. Karger (Cambridge, Mass.) and Steven Horng (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for managing medical information includes displaying a number of user interface elements within a graphical user interface, receiving medical information for a patient in a first user int...