ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,405, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Similarity analysis using enhanced MinHash" was invented by Michael Louis Wick (Burlington, Mass.), Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan (Burlington, Mass.) and Swetasudha Panda (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first set and a second set are identified as operands for a set operation of a similarity analysis task iteration. Using respective minimum hash information arrays and contributor count arrays of the two sets, a minimum hash information array and contributor count array of a derived set resulting from the set opera...