US Patent Issued to U.S. Bank National Association on Dec. 30 for "Large language model-assisted entity name resolution" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,322, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Large language model-assisted entity name resolution" was invented by Chenglin Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Hun-Jeong Kang (Eagan, Minn.), Xiaoqiao Wei (Woodbury, Minn.), Wentao Lu (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Christopher Kallas (Grafton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for resolving entity names combine hybrid search techniques with large language models to improve accuracy in matching business entities. The system includes an index builder that generates and stores both sparse and dense vector embeddings representing entity inf...