ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,196, issued on April 21, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

"Artificial intelligence based technologies for improving patient intake" was invented by Casey Bleeker (Denver) and Nathan A. Cartwright (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies for improving patient intake are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a patient intake request from a user; initiating, based on the patient intake request, a patient intake data stream including verbal responses from the user regarding patient intake of the user; applying, while simultaneously receiving the patient inta...