ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,687, issued on June 2, was assigned to Artifact Health Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"System and method for query management and education" was invented by Marisa MacClary (Lexington, Maine) and Meir Gottlieb (Nederland, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based, query management and education system enables provider organizations to query and educate clinicians on how to clarify clinical documentation, resulting in more accurate reimbursement, public reporting, research and policy decisions. Query authors create compliant queries from stored templates which may be supplemented by attaching and/or annotating selected documentation f...