ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,154, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Quest Diagnostics Investments Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Automated delivery of alerts with confirmation of receipt" was invented by Kamal Syal (Piscataway, N.J.) and David Evans (Westfield, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for delivering information as alerts. Alerts may be sent to one or more destinations at one or more times, with possible destinations including, e.g., one or more dedicated software clients, portable wireless devices, and/or email accounts, among many other possibilities. The sender may receive confirmation of, and/or may keep persistent recor...