US Patent Issued to FOURSQUARE LABS on May 13 for "Apparatus, systems, and methods for grouping data records" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,969, issued on May 13, was assigned to FOURSQUARE LABS INC. (New York).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for grouping data records" was invented by Boris Shimanovsky (Los Angeles), Manuel Lagang (Pasadena, Calif.) and Leonid Polovets (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for grouping data records based on entities referenced by the data records. The disclosed grouping mechanism can include determining a pair-wise similarity between a large number of data records, and clustering a subset of the data records based on their pair-wise similarity."

The patent...