ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,583, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Optiks Solutions Inc..

"System and method for patient communication" was invented by Anupam Nandwana (Piscataway, N.J.) and Edward Vaz (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securing authenticated patient communication through a device that is able to trigger a patient related event through a simple online communication process. The trigger(s) determined by the device are preferably controlled through a separate application, which may be controlled through a medical user computational device and/or a server. The separate application sets the one or more trigge...