ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,918, issued on Nov. 3.

"Medical decision support system with rule-driven interventions" was invented by Gary R. Gilbert (Potomac, Md.), Jaques Reifman (New Market, Md.), Rebecca E. Lee (Washington), Colleen Amelia Lingley-Papadopoulos (Frederick, Md.), Jose Salinas (San Antonio), Tee W. Dockery (Walkersville, Md.) and Craig Andrew Fenrich (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a main system 100 having a controller 102, a system database 104, and multiple handlers 110-116 that cooperate with a medical knowledge library 120 that may be part of the system or have one or more components external to the main system ...