ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,249, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Experian Information Solutions Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for entity resolution" was invented by Alan Tsang (San Diego), Zehua Guo (San Diego), Derek John Toub (San Diego), Mustafa Yakub Adib (San Diego), Yue Yu (San Diego), Shervin Sharifi (San Diego), Christer Dichiara (Carlsbad, Calif.), Hua Li (San Diego), Wis Kojohnjaratkul (San Diego) and Stuart Anthony Mathews (Tustin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for identifying a target entity that a user intends to refer to based on input that may include only a partial name of the entity...