ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,577, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corp. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"System and method to validate and perform coding for radiation therapy" was invented by Benjamin Jeremiah Sintay (Summerfield, N.C.), Caroline Leigh Vanderstraeten (Greensboro, N.C.), David Brian Wiant (Kernersville, N.C.) and Jeffrey Todd Wilson (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for validating medical coding are provided. One such method includes detecting a recorded clinical procedure that has been performed on a patient, determining, using a processor, one or more Current Procedural Ter...