Patents by Inventor Lori Shields

Lori Shields has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for determining complexity of a clinical trial
    Patent number: 10892041
    Abstract: A method for determining net complexity of a clinical trial includes determining procedures to be performed during the clinical trial, determining which of the procedures may be routinely performed on clinical trial subjects suffering from the disease that the drug under test is designed to treat, determining the net procedures to be performed for the clinical trial itself, and calculating a complexity score for the net procedures. An apparatus for determining net complexity of a clinical trial is also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Medidata Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Shields, Joshua Hartman
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A CLINICAL TRIAL BUDGET
    Publication number: 20150178873
    Abstract: A method for generating a clinical trial budget includes determining a plurality of procedures to be performed during a clinical trial, calculating the likelihood of reimbursement by a third party for each of the procedures, calculating for each of the procedures the expected reimbursement amount, calculating an expected net cost for each of the procedures based on the cost of each procedure and the expected reimbursement amount for each procedure, and summing up the expected net costs of the procedures to determine the clinical trial budget. An apparatus for generating a clinical trial budget is also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Medidata Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Shields, Joshua Hartman, Theresa Brophy, Sondra Pepe
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING COMPLEXITY OF A CLINICAL TRIAL
    Publication number: 20150178244
    Abstract: A method for determining net complexity of a clinical trial includes determining procedures to be performed during the clinical trial, determining which of the procedures may be routinely performed on clinical trial subjects suffering from the disease that the drug under test is designed to treat, determining the net procedures to be performed for the clinical trial itself, and calculating a complexity score for the net procedures. An apparatus for determining net complexity of a clinical trial is also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Medidata Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Shields, Joshua Hartman
  • Holiday display with miniature ferris wheels
    Patent number: D379777
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: M.H. Segan Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Marc H. Segan, Gary Strauss, Lori Shields