ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,329, issued on March 11, was assigned to SurgiBox Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for using blockchain to secure data acquired in surgical and other medical procedures" was invented by Mike Horia Mihail Teodorescu (Cambridge, Mass.), Atif Mohammad Rakin (Storrs, Conn.) and Gelu Comanescu (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system for managing data acquired during medical procedures is disclosed. The data management system may include a centralized database and/or a plurality of databases storing procedure records. Each of the procedure records comprises data acquired by a data acquisition syste...