US Patent Issued to ICON Clinical Research on Sept. 23 for "Clinical data management system" (Irish, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,303, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ICON Clinical Research Ltd. (Dublin).

"Clinical data management system" was invented by Colin Thomas Burns (County Kildare, Ireland), Gareth Allan Milborrow (Durham, Great Britain), Paul Crean (County Kildare, Ireland) and Michael Grossman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical data management system (1) has databases (20), processors in servers (2-4) which are programmed to process clinical data and communicate with user interfaces and external systems interfaces, and at least one database. The system imports source data from disparate clinical site sources into staging...