ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,514, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMPERITY INC. (Seattle).
"Multi-level conflict-free entity clusters" was invented by Yan Yan (Seattle), Stephen Keith Meyles (Seattle), Graeme Andrew Kyle Roche (Seattle), Jeffrey Allen Stokes (Seattle), Carlos Minoru Sakoda (Seattle) and Dan Suciu (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates clustering similar data records together in a hierarchical clustering scheme. Each tier in a cluster corresponds to a minimal match score, which reflects a degree of confidence. In this respect, a higher confidence may lead to smaller sized clusters while a lower confidence may le...