ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,410, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"String similarity based weighted min-hashing" was invented by Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel) and Michael Mirkin (Tivon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating hash values to determine string similarity is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes converting a first text string of a first data set into a first set of shingles. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a weight associated with each shingle...