ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,002, issued on April 15, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Triggering virtual clinical exams" was invented by Ritu Kapur (San Francisco), Maximilien Burq (Mountain View, Calif.), Erin Rainaldi (San Francisco), Lance Jonathan Myers (Pacifica, Calif.) and William Marks (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Triggering information that defines conditions for presenting a virtual clinical exam may be downloaded to a user device. The user device may collect sensor data and use the sensor data to evaluate the conditions. When certain conditions are fulfilled, the user device may present the virtual clinical exam at ...