ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,818, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Medidata Solutions Inc. (New York).

"Data security in an electronic data capture system" was invented by Marouane Nouira (New York), Matthew Riley (New York) and Sabrina Xu (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a computer system for detecting personally identifiable information (PII) in clinical trial data before the clinical trial data is committed to a hardware storage device to improve data security, comprising: causing rendering of a graphical user interface for input of clinical trial data and one or more controls; receiving, through the graphical user interface, i...