US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 6 for "Entity resolution incorporating data from various data sources which uses tokens and normalizes records" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,188, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Entity resolution incorporating data from various data sources which uses tokens and normalizes records" was invented by Satish J. Thomas (Sammamish, Wash.) and Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pair of records is tokenized to form a normalized representation of an entity represented by each record. The tokens are correlated to a machine learning system by determining whether a learned resolution already exists for the two entities. If not, the normalized records are compared to generate a comparis...