US Patent Issued to QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS on March 24 for "Systems and methods for electronically distributing information" (Ohio, Indiana, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,496, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for electronically distributing information" was invented by Douglas Menkedick (Guilford, Ind.), David Rapperport (Coconut Creek, Fla.) and Maheswar Putta (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for transmitting messages related to certain information while maintaining the confidentiality of that information. A potential recipient may register one or more devices for receipt of such messages while specifying rules regarding when different messages may be del...