ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,261, issued on May 27, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Filtered search method" was invented by Chih-Huai Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Han-Wen Hu (Zhubei, Taiwan), Huai-Mu Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Chun Li (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtered search method, for performing a search within a data set, and the data set includes several data points. The filtered search method includes the following steps. Dividing the data set into several clusters based on a similarity of the data points. Dividing each of the clusters into an inlier part and an outlier part based on a d...