US Patent Issued to Foundation Medicine on June 17 for "Computer-implemented system and method for identifying similar patients" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,192, issued on June 17, was assigned to Foundation Medicine Inc. (Boston).

"Computer-implemented system and method for identifying similar patients" was invented by Gaurav Singal (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mary Patricia Lancelotta (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a database of pathology information for a plurality of patients including at least one current patient; a memory; and a processor configured to identify the at least one second practitioner based on a similarity between the patient-specific pathology of the at least one current patient and the similar patient of the at least one second...