ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,350, issued on April 8.
"System and method of joining research studies to extract analytical insights for enabling cross-study analysis" was invented by Josh Shapiro (Smyrna, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method and a system for user-selected selected joining two or more research studies to extract analytical insights for enabling cross-study analysis is disclosed. The method includes identifying, using an identification module, at least one matched variable in a statistically representative sample in each of the two or more research studies. The method further includes establishing, using a segment estab...