ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,999, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for targeted medical document review" was invented by Rahul Bhaskar (Irvine, Calif.), Mohit Singhal (Delhi, India), Arun Kumar Tiwari (New Delhi), Urvi Sharma (Greater Noida, India) and Amardeep Sharma (Ghaziabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for targeted medical document review are disclosed. A list of medical documents is received. Each medical document is associated with a user enrolled in a plan subject to a medical document review process. A dataset for each medical document, including clinical data, membershi...