ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,866, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Computer-based systems configured for efficient entity resolution for database merging and reconciliation" was invented by Xiaoyuan Zhu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To facilitate efficient entity resolution, systems and methods include a first dataset is received from a first database associated with a first entity and a second dataset is received from a second database associated with a second entity. A geo-grid is mapped to a geographical area covering the first entity data records and the second entity data records. A grid matching area...