US Patent Issued to McKesson on July 22 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating a target quantitative measure based upon historical electronic messages" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,954, issued on July 22, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating a target quantitative measure based upon historical electronic messages" was invented by Stewart Aragon (Hadley, Mass.), Megan Wetzel (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Keith Crozier (North Kingstown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to estimate at least one target quantitative measure based upon historical electronic messages. The historical electronic messages may be partitioned based on geographic areas. The target quantitative measure may be est...