ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,752, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sandata Technologies LLC (Hicksville, N.Y.).

"Provider selection and scheduling for service provisioning" was invented by Vrajesh Bhavsar (Brentwood, Tenn.), John Kalivas (Erie, Colo.) and Sanju Melitta Pratap (Brentwood, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to coordinate provider selection, recommendation, and service scheduling for authorized services. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indicator associated with authorization of a service and first data associate...