ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,242, issued on March 18, was assigned to UpDoc Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Voice-based method and system for management of type 2 diabetes" was invented by Sharif Vakili (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ashwin K. Nayak (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificially intelligent, voice-based method for prescribing, managing and administering at least one medication for management of type 2 diabetes to a patient. Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a system and method for configuring one or more clinical algorithms according to one or more clinical protocols to configure a conversational AI model. The conversatio...