ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,972, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"System and method for genealogical entity resolution" was invented by Tyler Folkman (Lehi, Utah), Rey Furner (Lehi, Utah) and Drew Pearson (Lehi, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other techniques for genealogical entity resolution. In some embodiments, first tree data and second tree data are obtained, the first tree data corresponding to a first tree person and the second tree data corresponding to a second tree person. A set of features is extracted from the first tree data and the second tree data. An individual-level similar...