ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,972,847, issued on April 30, was assigned to Authentic Inc. (Bingham Farms, Mich.).

"Method and system for asynchronous medical patient data communication and management" was invented by Kamil Rahme (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Alan Best (Big Bend, Wis.), Jeffrey Santoso (Dural, Australia) and Josh Howerter (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asynchronous system for managing medical file protection and distribution. The system controls the distribution of sensitive patient records between different healthcare entities. The system includes a registration process for the healthcare institutions which creates a secure gateway between the syste...