ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,724, issued on July 8, was assigned to Xact Laboratories LLC (Twinsburg, Ohio).

"Automated prior authorization for genetic efficacy testing with prescription dispensation" 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 automating preauthorization of genetic efficacy testing with prescription dispensation are provided. Coverage requests for medicines are received from pharmacy systems. Databases are queried to retrieve policy rules for the coverage requests. A coverage decision analysis is performed and where an associated med...