ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,203, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Method, apparatus, and system for identifying the health status of a person" was invented by Robert J. Rencher (Normandy Park, Wash.), David Matthew Yager (Seattle), Roland Nelson Freeman (Bellevue, Wash.), Rahul C. Thakkar (Leesburg, Va.), Sumant Hattikudur (Renton, Wash.), Guijun Wang (Issaquah, Wash.) and David Wayne Nelson (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method, apparatus, and system for identifying a health status of an individual, by using a health challenge of the individual to gather vital sign information to gener...