ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,542, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OUTCOMEMD INC. (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for securely storing patient information and providing access thereto" was invented by Justin Saliman (Los Angeles), Jason Hurst (Vancouver, Wash.), Karthik Karunanithi (Los Angeles), Ryan Saliman (Los Angeles), Douglas Grim (Portland, Ore.) and Darin Feinstein (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon receipt and verification of a patient's key, a medical questionnaire may be provided to a patient via an electronic device (e.g., computer, mobile phone, etc.). A set of responses to the medical questionnaire may be received from the patie...