US Patent Issued to Surescripts on March 18 for "Database schema to simplify processing and reduce false positive matches in ambiguous data" (Arizona, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,986, issued on March 18, was assigned to Surescripts LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Database schema to simplify processing and reduce false positive matches in ambiguous data" was invented by Norman S. Adams (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Vareck Shawn Bostrom (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for building records from false positive matches are disclosed. A master record is identified that incorrectly groups a plurality of source records in a database, where the plurality of source records contain demographic information for multiple people. In the database, a first record, ...