ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,200, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TensorX Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Health status system, platform, and method" was invented by N. Edward White (Austin, Texas), G. Edward Powell (Nashville, Tenn.), Van L. Marshall (Jackson, Mich.), Mark T. Lane (Franklin, Tenn.) and John M. Clerici (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health status platform includes a receiving component that receives a test result a test of a biological sample collected from a human patient. The test result includes an indication of a presence of an infectious disease in the patient, and an identification and a verification of the patient. The platform ...