ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,996, issued on July 14, was assigned to Technologies IP LLC.

"Electronic healthcare record data blockchain system and process" was invented by Ronald Raymond Austring (English Harbour, Antigua and Barbuda), Kenneth A. Hill Sr. (Fort Worth, Texas), Brad T. Crosslin (Keller, Texas) and Clinton S. Ferguson III (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Electronic Health Record (EHR) data blockchain system configured to allow multiple entities (e.g., pharmacy industry entities and healthcare providers that can act as data, service, product and service providers, and consumers) to connect to an EHR patient transaction blockchain ...