ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,848, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Vydiant Inc. (Folsom, Calif.).

"Personalized health system, method and device having a physical activity function" was invented by James Kaput (Madison, Wis.), Corrado Priami (Follonica, 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 personal health system, method and device that maintains a health knowledge base, inputs user characteristics, generates health scores based on the user characteristics and provides recommendations based on the user characteristics, health scores and knowledge base, wherein the...