ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,482, issued on July 8, was assigned to Experian Information Solutions Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Single identifier platform for storing entity data" was invented by Hua Li (San Diego), Sophie Liu (San Diego), Yi He (San Diego), Zhixuan Wang (San Diego), Chi Zhang (San Diego), Kevin Chen (San Diego), Shanji Xiong (San Diego), Christer Dichiara (Carlsbad, Calif.), Mason Carpenter (Richmond, Va.), Mark Hirn (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Julian Yarkony (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure recites systems and methods for generating record clusters. For example, a computer-implemented method comprises rece...