US Patent Issued to ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH on July 7 for "Systems and methods for utilizing data object references to merge a program" (North Carolina, Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,216, issued on July 7, was assigned to ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH Ltd..

"Systems and methods for utilizing data object references to merge a program" was invented by Jeff Beeler (Cary, N.C.), Matt Sabol (Springfield, Va.) and John Bigley (Lincoln, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of utilizing data object references to merge one or more programs, the method including: initiating, via a server, a session of a study for a user; assigning, via the server, a first program of the study to the user, the first program including a plurality of events divided into a plurality of phases, generating respective first data objects to refe...