ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,295, issued on June 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Data de-identification" was invented by Sven Peter Prevrhal (Hamburg, Germany), Ingmar Graesslin (Boenningstedt, Germany) and Thomas Buelow (Grosshansdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for transferring data (110) generated by a medical imaging system over a communication network (120), is provided. The system includes a processing arrangement (130, 140) configured to identify (S120) one or more protected health information, PHI, elements (110') in the data (110); obscure (S130) the one or more PHI elements (110') in th...