US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Nov. 18 for "Pair-wise graph querying, merging, and computing for account linking" (Israeli, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,259, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pair-wise graph querying, merging, and computing for account linking" was invented by Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Alon Wiener (Tel Aviv, Israel), Delin Liu (Shanghai), Haoran Zhang (Shanghai), Itzik Levi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Junshi Guo (Shanghai), Ying Lin (Shanghai), Yu Zhang (Shanghai) and Zohar Li Marad (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for pairwise graph querying, merging, and computing for account linking. A service provider may provide an account graph system to identify pairwise similarities between differe...