US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., Universitaet des Saarlandes on April 21 for "Method and search platform apparatus for processing search queries directed at a database containing medical sample data and/or samples" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,384, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Munich) and Universitaet des Saarlandes (Saarbruecken, Germany).

"Method and search platform apparatus for processing search queries directed at a database containing medical sample data and/or samples" was invented by Heiko Zimmermann (Sulzbach, Germany), Andreas Kurtz (Berlin) and Antonie Fuhr (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing search queries directed at a database containing medical sample data and/or samples from a multiplicity of samples of persons comprises the steps: entering a search qu...