US Patent Issued to The MITRE on April 22 for "Systems and methods for reducing data collection burden" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,464, issued on April 22, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for reducing data collection burden" was invented by Leslie David Servi (Lincoln, Mass.), Randy Clinton Paffenroth (Northborough, Mass.), Melanie Ann Jutras (Wrentham, Mass.) and Deon Lamar Burchett (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reducing data collection burden, comprising: one or more programs including instructions for: receiving a first set of metrics for a plurality of facilities; receiving data associated with the first set of metrics from one or more facilities of the plurality of facilities; determining one ...