US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on July 15 for "Method and system for providing anonymized patient datasets" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,170, issued on July 15, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for providing anonymized patient datasets" was invented by Santiago Reinhard Suppan (Maxhuette-Haidhof, Germany), Jorge Ricardo Cuellar Jaramillo (Baierbrunn, Germany) and Ute Rosenbaum (Kempten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing anonymized patient datasets, comprises: analyzing statistical population data to ascertain obfuscation parameters; and anonymizing patient datasets including quasi-identifiers as attributes by obfuscating the quasi-identifiers of the patient datasets based ...