ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,218, issued on July 7, was assigned to TELADOC HEALTH INC. (New York).

"Automated transcription and documentation of tele-health encounters" was invented by Marco Pinter (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Charles S. Jordan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Yulun Wang (Goleta, Calif.) and Ole Eichhorn (Westlake Village, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically generating a structured medical note during a remote medical consultation using machine learning. A provider tele-presence device may receive audio from a medical provider. A medical documentation server may be coupled to the network. A machine learning network receives audio data from t...