ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,362, issued on May 13, was assigned to IQVIA Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"System and method for phenotype vector manipulation of medical data" was invented by Jonathan Wickson (West Sussex, Great Britain) and Robin Murray (High Peak, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cohort definition and selection system for a computer having a memory, a central processing unit and a display, the system including: a cohort definition module to configure the memory according to a phenotype vector. The phenotype vector includes a patient ID to uniquely associate the phenotype vector to a patient, a plurality of demographic dimension fields, ea...