US Patent Issued to Matillion on Aug. 26 for "Optimizing and tuning unstructured text record linkage using generative AI driven fuzzy matching" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,899, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Matillion Ltd. (Salford, Great Britain).

"Optimizing and tuning unstructured text record linkage using generative AI driven fuzzy matching" was invented by Ian Clive Funnell (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI-powered fuzzy join technique has been created to efficiently join records/entries of datasets based on fuzzy matching of string keys. A small language model (SLM) is prompted to generate a set of abbreviations for each string key of the datasets being joined. Records of the datasets are joined based on pairing or matching string keys with overlapping abbreviations. ...