ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,547, issued on May 13, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for data communication in a network" was invented by Alexander Brost (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for data communication in a network including a first network area and a second network area. The method includes provisioning medical patient data; provisioning identification data for identification of a patient; provisioning a code linked to the identification data; sending medical patient data and the code from the first network area to a server in the second network area; and processing the pati...