ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,076, issued on June 23, was assigned to Embold Health Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Provider assessment system, methods for assessing provider performance, methods for curating provider networks based on provider performance, and methods for defining a provider network based on provider performance" was invented by Daniel Stein (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of assessing a performance of a provider include receiving, from a third-party system, claims data, applying one or more defined performance measures to the claims data to determine measure scores of one or more providers, the measure scores being related to...