US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Automatic sub-cluster selection algorithm for the hierarchical clustering of file objects" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,816, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic sub-cluster selection algorithm for the hierarchical clustering of file objects" was invented by Smriti Thakkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Tony T. Wong (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes, beginning at a parent node of a data structure, calculating a first W-index for the parent node and a left child node, calculating a second W-index for the parent node and a right child node, when the first W-index exceeds a threshold Lambda, marking the left child node as a candidate to be included in a sub-cluster separate from ...