ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,984, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Xero Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Systems and methods for matching entities" was invented by Duncan Buchanan (Wellington, New Zealand), Han Zhang (Wellington, New Zealand), Shreyas Nagarajappa (Wellington, New Zealand), Rui Min (Wellington, New Zealand), William Lester (Wellington, New Zealand) and Mehika Manocha (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises identifying a candidate entity for matching with one or more target entities from a plurality of target entities, and for one or more of the target entities: determining a target suitability measure indicati...