US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Techniques for anonymized searching of medical providers" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,933, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for anonymized searching of medical providers" was invented by David W. Padgett (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jason B. Morley (San Francisco), Christian Schroeder (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhe Li (Santa Monica, Calif.), Mark E. Pennell (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device can be used to generate medical term expressions, which represent medical terms of a health record. The user device can identify a medical concept present in the health record based on a medical term expression. The user device can ge...