US Patent Issued to McNeil on Sept. 30 for "Enforced content interaction timing for lifestyle and health related behavior change" (Michigan, South Dakota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,234, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to McNeil AB (Helsingborg, Sweden).

"Enforced content interaction timing for lifestyle and health related behavior change" was invented by Kevin J. Wildenhaus (Plymouth, Mich.), Sophie Edgar (Hoboken, N.J.), Justin Mellinger (Philadelphia), Ming Dong (Furlong, Pa.), Desislava Ivanova (Cambridge, Mass.) and Danielle Giuseffi (Rapid City, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may be configured for user interaction with specific timing mechanisms and access rules that may improve a user's preparedness for and ultimate success with a behavior change effort, such as smoking cessation...