ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,537, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GSI Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Reference distance similarity search" was invented by Dan Ilan (Herzliya, Israel) and Amir Gottlieb (Modi'in, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A similarity search system includes a database of original vectors, a hierarchical database of bins and a similarity searcher. The hierarchical database of bins is stored in an associative memory array, each bin identified by an order vector representing at least one original vector and the dimension of the order vector is smaller than the dimension of the original vector. The similarity searcher searches in...