ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,874, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Xact Laboratories LLC (Twinsburg, Ohio).

"System and method for suggesting insurance eligible genetic efficacy tests" was invented by Rob Todd (Doylestown, Pa.), Jerry Wrobel (Aurora, Ohio) and John Pigott (Slyvania, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for suggesting insurance eligible genetic tests to a healthcare provider are disclosed. An EMR system is queried to retrieve insurance information, active medications, and diagnoses associated with a particular patient. An eligibility database is queried to retrieve insurance eligibly rules for a particular policy of a particular...