US Patent Issued to Gradient Health on May 19 for "System and method for reversibly deidentifying medical imagery" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,598, issued on May 19, was assigned to Gradient Health Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"System and method for reversibly deidentifying medical imagery" was invented by Ouwen Huang (Durham, N.C.), Chang Liu (Durham, N.C.) and Joshua Miller (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reversibly deidentifying images uses optical character recognition (OCR) or another method of automatically determining pixels to edit or remove within a medical image. One or more keys are generated encoding the original pixel values and pixel locations for the edited or removed pixels, and are stored on at least one server or at a medical institution t...