ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,304, issued on March 31, was assigned to MANAGED HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATES INC. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Rules-based processing of structured data" was invented by Thomas J. Hermey (Boonton, N.J.), Tillman E. Johnson (Chapin, S.C.), Jhanvika Thakkar (Bridgewater, N.J.), Timothy R. Tannert (Gibsonia, Pa.), Shantanu V. Bhide (Sewickley, Pa.), Shirin Vinayak (Short Hills, N.J.), Glen R. McCloskey (Springfield Township, N.J.), Neelanjana Panda (Jersey City, N.J.), Milind Deodhar (Parsippany, N.J.) and Rene' Charlene Bloemke (Woodland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rules processing system includes one or more processors and one or more...