ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,004, issued on April 15, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).
"Clinical data harvester" was invented by Edward Thomas Novak (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Brandon Joshua Gilzean (Cary, N.C.), George Edward Bier (Richfield, Minn.) and Eli Mitchell Wolter (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical harvester system may provision, based at least in part on information associated with a piece of clinical data associated with a user, a plurality of harvesters that query a plurality of data sources to locate the piece of clinical data. The clinical harvester system may transmit data between two or more of the plurali...