US Patent Issued to INTUIT on June 16 for "Customer recognition system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,593, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Customer recognition system" was invented by Runhua Zhao (Milpitas, Calif.), Sonam Sikaria (Mountain View, Calif.), Jaiyao Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Linhong Kang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Byron Tang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bilal Rizvi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implements a customer recognition system. A request with an identifier of an unidentified user is received. Sparse data is generated from string information corresponding to the identifier. Preexisting identifiers are filtered to generate a list of candidate identifier...