US Patent Issued to IQVIA on April 14 for "Scientific clinical diffusion network" (Pennsylvania, California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,185, issued on April 14, was assigned to IQVIA INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Scientific clinical diffusion network" was invented by Yanping Liu (Harleysville, Pa.), Steve Eichert (Jenkintown, Pa.), Yong Cai (Marina, Calif.), Vishwaraj Dilesh Doshi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Tong Wu (North Wales, Pa.) and Emily Zhao (Wayne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a heterogenous network and determining diffusion weights of scientific evidence in the heterogenous network. The computer obtains clinical data associated with a clinical networ...