ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,861, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Identity resolution in knowledge graph databases" was invented by David Newman (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Omar B. Khan (Richmond, Va.) and Nikolai Anisimov (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include presenting a user interface on a computing device, the user interface including: an input element configured to receive an input of a search concept; a similar concept selection element; and a concept comparison portion; executing a similarity search in a vector-space representation of a knowledge graph using the input; populating the si...