ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,917, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIALIZATION INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Scalable knowledge database generation and transactions processing" was invented by Akshay Vashist (Princeton, N.J.), Chumki Basu (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Todd Huster (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Pingji Lin (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Dennis Mok (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and John R. Wullert II (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for a scalable approach to build a knowledge database of clinical trial data by extracting, aligning, and synthesizing information from a variety of sources incl...