US Patent Issued to DE-BI on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for digitally connecting patients to de-identified research specimens and data using composable protocols and tokenized identifiers" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,867, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DE-BI Co. (Baltimore).

"Systems and methods for digitally connecting patients to de-identified research specimens and data using composable protocols and tokenized identifiers" was invented by Marielle Gross (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital honest broker system and method for managing patient specimens and data that links patients to their de-identified specimens and data across multiple studies and institutions is disclosed. The platform allows patients to access and engage with their data anytime after consenting, transforming informed consent into a dynamic, long-term memb...