ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,606, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vydiant Inc. (Folsom, Calif.).

"Digital vaccine system, method and device" was invented by James Kaput (Madison, Wis.), Corrado Priami (Follonica, Italy), Duccio Medini (Perugia, Italy), Melissa Morine (Avonport, Canada), Terry Carlone (Sacramento, Calif.) and John Green (Burke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital vaccine system, method and device that maintains a health knowledge base, inputs user characteristics, generates health scores based on the user characteristics and provides pathogen risk recommendations based on the user characteristics, health scores and knowledge base, wher...