ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,241, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for detecting issues in clinical study site and subject compliance" was invented by Yunzhou Shi (San Bruno, Calif.), Yi Yang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Matthew Corbin Wiggins (San Jose, Calif.) and Wu Guan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, for each user of a group of users participating in a first clinical study: collecting a plurality of data associated with the user, wherein the plurality of data includes data received from a group of devices used by the user over a duration during the first ...