US Patent Issued to Hyland Software on Feb. 18 for "Systems, methods, and devices for enhanced DICOM de-identification" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,385, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hyland Software Inc. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Systems, methods, and devices for enhanced DICOM de-identification" was invented by Carlos Leitao (Mississauga, Canada) and Razvan Atanasiu (Victoria, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, described herein, enable enhanced de-identification solutions for digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) systems and records. DICOM header tags may be de-identified (e.g., anonymized) using one or more hashing algorithms and salt values. Solutions for evaluating and resolving collisions between de-identified. DICOM records may be de-identified...