ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,655, issued on March 4, was assigned to Smart Solutions IP LLC (Wixom, Mich.).

"System, method and apparatus for real-time access to networked radiology data" was invented by Fawzi Shaya (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating DICOM images as part of a real-time virtual medical consultation includes receiving, by a handheld patient device associated with a patient, a DICOM image associated with the patient generated by a diagnostic device, encrypting, by the handheld patient device, the DICOM image and linking the encrypted DICOM image to a unique patient identifier associated with the patient, wherein th...