ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,199, issued on July 1.

"Coincidence identification tool" was invented by Jean-David Trepanier (St-Hubert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User input is used to define different geographical locations and/or different time frames related to a plurality of events, At least one data source is queried to receive occurrence records corresponding to at least some of the plurality of events according to the different geographical locations and/or different time frames. The records having at least one field whose value matches are grouped to form at least one coincidence entity. A visual representation of the at least one coincidence en...