US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on July 22 for "Blockchain solution for harmonized storage of clinical and genetic data" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,010, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Blockchain solution for harmonized storage of clinical and genetic data" was invented by Gamze Gursoy (New York) and Ahmed Elhussein (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for practicing precision medicine comprising providing, to a blockchain platform, each of clinical data and genetic data, providing the blockchain platform, the blockchain platform having a first data structure comprising clinical data and a second data structure comprising genetic data, harmonizing the first and second data structures, creati...