US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Dec. 16 for "System and method for record linkage" (Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,982, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"System and method for record linkage" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle), Kanakasabha Kailasam (Olathe, Kan.) and John Christopher Murrish (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating record matching and entity resolution and for enabling improvements in record linkage. A power-spectrum-based temporal pattern-specific weight may be incorporated into record linkage methods to enhance the record linkage accuracy and statistical performance. For example, in embodi...