US Patent Issued to National Student Clearinghouse on Oct. 28 for "Record matching system" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,886, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to National Student Clearinghouse (Herndon, Va.).

"Record matching system" was invented by Ravi Batchu (Sterling, Va.), Manish Ganotra (Ashburn, Va.), Diana Gillum (Ashburn, Va.), Joolee Tao (McLean, Va.) and Steven Truesdale (Round Hill, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an improved Enterprise Matching Service ("EMS") that is designed to match incoming data records to a database of records, using less system resources and using those resources more efficiently. The EMS identifies potential matches by generating unique identifiers and match codes for incoming data records,...