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USPTO Grants Patent US12609187B2 for Clinical Budget Data Transformation

USPTO granted patent US12609187B2 to Annex IP, LLC on April 21, 2026 for a computer-implemented method of reconciling clinical trial budgets. The system receives procedural items from sponsor budget, Medicare Coverage Analysis, and site charge master sources; normalizes text and generates vector embeddings; constructs approximate nearest-neighbor indices; retrieves candidates by cosine similarity; computes composite match scores combining code equality, textual similarity, numeric price proximity, and billing consistency; selects one-to-one matches via maximum-weight bipartite matching; aligns to Medicare Coverage Analysis items with code-family gating; and writes per-item audit records through an API. The patent contains 20 claims and is classified under CPC G16H 10/20.