ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,185, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Truveta Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for indexing and searching health data" was invented by Simon Julian Powers (Seattle), Jayaram Nanduri (Issaquah, Wash.), Denesh Singh Pohar (Kirkland, Wash.), Ram Prasad Sunkara (Sammamish, Wash.) and Cheuk Wan William Lau (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for indexing and searching health data are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for querying patient records includes receiving a search input that specifies a plurality of events, one or more temporal relationships between the events, and inclusi...