US Patent Issued to H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute on Aug. 25 for "Integrated virtual patient framework" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,957, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Integrated virtual patient framework" was invented by Alexander Robertson Allan Anderson (Tampa, Fla.), Mark Robertson-Tessi (Tampa, Fla.), Kevin McCash (Tampa, Fla.) and Chandler Dean Gatenbee (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated Virtual Patient Framework (IVPF) for providing decision support that evolves with increasing data collected on a given patient. Support decisions for patients with limited data is made using statistical prediction tools derived from historical trajectories of similar patients...