US Patent Issued to Elm on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for identifying similar data elements using string matching" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,856, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Elm (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and apparatus for identifying similar data elements using string matching" was invented by Muhammad Saleh Al-Qurishi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Ibrahim Basha (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Riad Souissi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and apparatus for identifying similar record elements to a query, the method including receiving a query, determining an index for the query, generating candidate records from a reference list to match the query based on the index and applying any one or any combination of a q-gram fil...