ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,669, issued on March 24.

"Electronic binder system (ebinder) for processing source data to EDC systems" was invented by Tai Xie (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Richard Xue (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and system for automatically and seamlessly processing clinical trial source data into electronic data capture (EDC) systems. In one embodiment, a file structure is defined for an electronic binder system (eBinder); source data is uploaded to the eBinder; the source data is encrypted, Patient Identifiable Information in the source data is masked; the source data is converted into ma...