US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Sept. 8 for "Patient and consumer data de-identification" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,673, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Patient and consumer data de-identification" was invented by Eric P. Meyer (Zurich), Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.), Doruk Cetin (Zurich), Niko Benjamin Huber (Zug, Switzerland) and Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides solutions for anonymizing patient data and in particular, for anonymizing potentially unique patient-identifying information while retaining clinically relevant information, for example, that can be used to illustrate the results or outcomes of a clinical intervention. In som...