ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,973, issued on May 26, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Systems and methods for natural language processing documentation review system for clinical decision support" was invented by Ayush Mathur (Novi, Mich.), Pice Chen (Indianapolis), Hong Ni (Indianapolis), Chao Zhang (Indianapolis), James D. Martindale (Indianapolis), Harsha Arcot (Indianapolis), Madeline Glasheen (Indianapolis), Summer McDonald (Indianapolis) and Stephanie English (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for digitizing clinical documents comprises receiving a clinical document and a policy type. The method fu...