ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,687, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Valencia, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of deduplicating data collected by an implantable medical device" was invented by Hitesh Hotlani (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device and a method of deduplicating data collected by the implantable medical device are provided. The method includes storing data, captured by the implantable medical device, in a non-volatile memory device of the implantable medical device, assigning a unique number, generated from a random number generator or counter, to ea...