ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,218, issued on June 3, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Virtual health coach for facilitating dynamic dosage titration" was invented by Nikhil Roy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Miguel Angelo Drumond (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method improves efficacy of diabetes self-management to obtain a measurement message and/or contextual activity information used to determine a suitable insulin dosage to treat a patient. The method includes simulating a health coach in a natural conversation to obtain a measurement of the patient's blood-glucose level, processing the measured blood-glucose...