ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,684, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Decision support tools for reducing readmissions of individuals with acute myocardial infarction" was invented by Rupanjali Chaudhuri (Bangalore, India), Vadim Khotilovich (Leawood, Kan.), Monica Gaur (Delhi, India), Chetan KV (Bangalore, India) and Will Zimmerman (Kansas City, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods and computer storage media are disclosed for providing a decision support tool for reducing readmissions of AMI patients through early prediction of readmission. An AMI patient may be identified using a working diagnosis and...