ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,319, issued on March 31, was assigned to IQVIA Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Early prediction of clinical trial signals" was invented by Gary Shorter (Cary, N.C.), Naouel Baili Benabdallah (Cary, N.C.) and Brian Slocum Vannah (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a method for detecting signals related to subjects participating in a clinical trial. In some implementations, a computer collects clinical data from multiple sources. The computer standardizes and redacts personally identifiable information and determines predictive features that correspond...