US Patent Issued to TRANS UNION on April 15 for "System and method for matching of database records based on similarities to search queries" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,130, issued on April 15, was assigned to TRANS UNION LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for matching of database records based on similarities to search queries" was invented by Po Cheung Ng (Roseville, Australia), Jeffrey Carson (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and Eric Haszlakiewicz (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the matching of database records based on the similarity between fields in the database records and fields in the search queries is provided. A set of database records may be received from a search engine for further refinement of the search results. The database records may be assigned matching strength poi...