ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,452, issued on July 29, was assigned to WWW.TRUSTSCIENCE.COM INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Identity resolution in big, noisy, and/or unstructured data" was invented by Chris Trudel (Edmonton, Canada), Zhaochen Guo (Edmonton, Canada), Leo M. Chan (Edmonton, Canada), Daniel Chi Yin Chui (Edmonton, Canada) and Ashif Mawji (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an environment containing big data, noisy data, and/or unstructured data, it is desirable to identify an entity referenced by input data. The entity can be identified by generating records corresponding to characteristics of the entity based on the input data. These recor...