US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "Similarity degree derivation system and similarity degree derivation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,413, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Similarity degree derivation system and similarity degree derivation method" was invented by Yoshiyuki Ohno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hash value calculation means 2, when obtaining multiple hash values obtained by applying multiple hash functions to individual elements of each set in multiple sets, obtains the multiple hash values for individual elements of each set, eliminating duplicate calculations of each hash function other than a predetermined hash function among the multiple hash functions with respect to multiple elements whose hash values obtained b...