ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,671, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EFFERENT LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for clinical data integration" was invented by Jaime Olivares (The Woodlands, Texas), Kress Stein (The Woodlands, Texas) and Brian Pari (The Woodlands, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are described to share large amounts of data in a secure and hierarchical manner across computer systems. The sharing process includes techniques to manage access to data and to manage physical storage locations throughout a hierarchy of computer systems. An intermediary level of storage may be provided to "cache" large data files t...