ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,497, issued on April 7, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).
"Health analysis based on ingestible sensors" was invented by Dharmendra Gudimetla (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Karukamaliyil Lukose Sibin (Woonsocket, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health analysis system and method configured to base sensor measurements on detection of ingestion of a medication by a patient. The health analysis system receives an indicator collected by a first sensor associated to the patient. The indicator identifies a first adherence event at a first indicator time indicating at least a first medication was ingested by the patient...