ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,663, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic threshold-based records linking" was invented by Abhishek Seth (Deoband, India), Soma Shekar Naganna (Bengaluru, India), Devbrat Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Mahendra Singh Kanyal (Banbasa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Records linking is provided. Two records are selected from a plurality of records corresponding to a customer for pair-wise record comparison. It is determined whether the two records are included in different entities. A local auto-link-threshold value of the different entities is identified in response to d...