US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on July 22 for "Entity resolution in genealogical databases" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,219, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Entity resolution in genealogical databases" was invented by Ian Stiles (Salem, Utah), Eugene David Greenwood (Orem, Utah), Donald Bernard Curtis (Highland, Utah) and Rey Robert Furner (Lindon, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-program products for entity resolution are disclosed. Entity resolution embodiments include receiving tree data from each of a pair of entities, extracting and/or aggregating feature vectors or metric functions therefrom, and generating similarity scores between the pair of entities. The similar...