US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Nov. 4 for "Multi-cluster duplicate record detection" (Illinois, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,944, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Multi-cluster duplicate record detection" was invented by Austin Smith (Wesley Chapel, Fla.), Stephen Wilbourn (Royse City, Texas), Heath Hafner (Mahomet, Ill.), Peter R. Wenzel (Bloomington, Ill.) and Brian Setzler (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duplicate record detector may retrieve and identify sets of corresponding records within a multi-cluster data storage system. The duplicate record detector initially may query each cluster to retrieve record sets including potentially duplicate records. The duplicate re...