ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,893, issued on June 10.
"Data item matching" was invented by Robert Hartwell Herring III (Marietta, Ga.) and Anne Sylvia Amaladoss (Mountain House, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of determining which stored data items are most similar to a received data item. For each stored data item, first and second vectors are generated and compared to generate a similarity score. Stored data items are classified as similar to the received data item using the similarity scores. The vectors are defined within the same vector space. The first vector includes a first component indicative of a number of unique N-g...