ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,485, issued on March 3, was assigned to IQVIA INC. (Durham, N.C.).
"Address enhancement" was invented by Karen Swenson (Bedford, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system obtain records for a health care provider from sources, each record specifying an address for the health care provider. An accuracy score to each address is assigned based on (i) relationships among some of the records for the health care provider or (ii) applicability, to the address, of an accuracy trend for the source of the address. The accuracy score for each of the addresses is adjusted based on applying audit rules to the address, each audit rul...