ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,389, issued on March 11, was assigned to VigNet Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Monitoring technology usage and data quality in decentralized pharmaceutical trials" was invented by Praduman Jain (Fairfax, Va.), Josh Schilling (Salem, Ore.), Dave Klein (Oakton, Va.) and Mark James Begale (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for monitoring technology usage and data quality in decentralized pharmaceutical trials. In some implementations, a system receives data collected using one or more technology items for participants in a clinical trial that...