ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,044, issued on May 13, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).
"Personalized health search engine" was invented by Vidhya Krishnaprasad (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Amanda R. Hoppock (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.), Mary E. Ayala (Ellsworth, Wis.) and Erin M. Moore (Haubstadt, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices and techniques are described for personalizing a health-related search. An example computing device includes a memory and one or more processors circuitry. The memory is configured to store a search query. The one or more processors are configured to obtain the search query and determine that the s...