US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on Oct. 28 for "Personal information protection management system for genomic data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,981, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Personal information protection management system for genomic data" was invented by Mikio Fujiwara (Tokyo), Masahiro Takeoka (Tokyo), Masahide Sasaki (Tokyo) and Masao Nagasaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal information protection management system for genomic data includes data storage, role storage, a filter, and a data output part. The data storage is configured to store genomic data. The role storage is configured to store an identifier of a data output destination and a role in association wi...