ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,426, issued on July 8, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Assigning device" was invented by Geert Jan Schrijen (Roermond, Netherlands) and Derk Jan Meuleman (Kessenich, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assigning device (100) for assigning fixed identifiers to fuzzy identifiers, the assigning device comprising a database storing multiple fuzzy identifiers, and a matching unit (130) arranged to determine if a matching fuzzy identifier exists in the database that matches a fuzzy input identifier according to a matching criterion and to determine if a matching fuzzy identifier does not exist in the database accor...