ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,017, issued on May 12, was assigned to Medidata Solutions Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for de-identifying healthcare data in a health analysis platform" was invented by Krishnamoorthy Chinnathambu (Iselin, N.J.), Bhargav Koduru (Boston), Luke Morgan (Cincinnati) and Trey Moore (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving data security in a computerized health analysis platform are disclosed. For instance, a method includes (i) reading clinical study data sets regarding one or more clinical studies from a hardware storage device, (ii) executing a first computer executable de-identification fun...