ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,124, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mental Health Technologies Inc. (Aurora, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for allocating resources in mental health treatment" was invented by John Cray (Naperville, Ill.) and Ernesto Wallerstein Jr. (North Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for allocating resources in mental health treatment includes the steps of: retrieving individual patient's mental health assessment data mapped to assessed mental conditions; computing a wellness score of the mapped assessed mental conditions; determining an overall treatment efficacy progress with a statistically analyzed g...