US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Oct. 7 for "Machine-learning system and method for identifying same person in genealogical databases" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,214, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Machine-learning system and method for identifying same person in genealogical databases" was invented by Atanu Roy (Lehi, Utah), Jianlong Qi (Lehi, Utah), Peng Jiang (Lehi, Utah), Aaron Ling (Lehi, Utah), Rey Furner (Lehi, Utah), Lei Wu (Lehi, Utah), Eugene Greenwood (Lehi, Utah) and Ian Stiles (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining whether two tree persons in a genealogical database correspond to the same real-life individual. Embodiments include identifying two tree persons in a genealogical database and extrac...