ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,914, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).
"Database record linkage using adaptive dynamic blocking" was invented by Yee Lau (Carol Stream, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes performing by a host system processor: providing a database including a plurality of records, the database having at least one attribute associated therewith; determining a plurality of maximum block sizes as a plurality of ideal maximum numbers of the plurality of records in a plurality of blocks, respectively, based on a plurality of blocking keys; determining a duplication factor based on a number of unique reco...