ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,768, issued on March 3, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for determining similarities between entities" was invented by Arturo Oncevay (London), Simerjot Kaur (Danville, Calif.), Joy Sain (Jamaica, N.Y.), Xiaomo Liu (Manhasset, N.Y.), Chen Ling (Verona, N.J.), Daniel Governara (Ho Ho Kus, N.J.), Brian P Clementi (Jersey City, N.J.) and Charese Smiley (Bristol, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for determining similarities between entities are provided. The method includes: receiving a request to determine an estimate for a first instrument; generating a query to identify ...