ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,191, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins Health System Corp. (Baltimore).

"Parsing audit records stored in a hardware storage device" was invented by Eileen Kasda (Baltimore), Christine Robson (Baltimore) and Sean Monaghan (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: receiving a request to perform an audit on data describing a medical safety event; obtaining an initial audit record based on the request; parsing the initial audit record to identify a structure of the initial audit record; identifying, from the structure, one or more fields that describe one or more properties of th...