US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on April 21 for "Medical record system using a patient avatar" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,113, issued on April 21, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Medical record system using a patient avatar" was invented by Oliver Crespo Diaz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yuri Haverman (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a medical system that allows a healthcare professional to view medical records as they are associated with a patient avatar. The system may create a three- dimensional view of an avatar representing a patient and attach patient records to specific locations of the avatar as representative of the data within each record. A timeline of treatments may be accessib...