Travelers Indemnity Assigned Patent

By Targeted News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13 -- Travelers Indemnity, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,332,234) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for enhanced medical triage." The co-inventors are Vincent Armentano, Glastonbury, Conn., Carol Demumbrum, Redington Shores, Fla., Russell Steingiser, Glastonbury, Conn., Stanley Grivers, South Windsor, Conn., Lisa Lawton, Naugatuck, Conn., and Julie Morgan, Lyme, Conn.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a method and system for enhanced medical triage in managed care plans that streamlines the conventional medical triage process and referral logic, sends only those insurance claims to an integrated case management system that require medical intervention, matches claims to the right resource at the right time, reduces the time needed to review lost time cases, lessens the number of unnecessary referrals or re-referrals, and further tailors the assignment process of medical insurance claims to medical personnel based on specific market and/or employer dedication."

The patent application was filed on April 21, 2008 (12/106,635). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,332,234&OS=8,332,234&RS=8,332,234

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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