US Patent Issued to Technion Research & Development Foundation on July 1 for "Database record lineage and vector search" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,297, issued on July 1, was assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Database record lineage and vector search" was invented by Oded Shmueli (Haifa, Israel) and Michael Leybovich (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of computing lineage, comprising: managing a dataset of records, each record associated with set(s) of vectors of real numbers that encode an approximation of lineage of the respective record, the set(s) of vectors computed by an encoding process, obtaining result record(s) in response to executing a query on the dataset, computing set(s) of vectors fo...