US Patent Issued to Providence St. Joseph Health on Sept. 22 for "Advanced deidentification of information, such as information about a person" (Oregon, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,550, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, Wash.).

"Advanced deidentification of information, such as information about a person" was invented by Lindsay Thomas Mico (Portland, Ore.), Vivek Tomer (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Yuqing Guo (Amherst, Mass.) and Amar Nadaa Taiyab (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for the identifying contents of a data object is described. The facility identifies in the data object two or more constituent portions. For each of the constituent portions identified in the data object, the facility: identifies a type of data items occurring within the cons...