ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,386, issued on April 21, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Entity matching with machine learning fuzzy logic" was invented by Elliot Hirsch (New York), Johannes Beil (Copenhagen, Denmark), Lauren Brown (London), Nicolas Prettejohn (Bath, Great Britain), Paul Baseotto (Poole, Great Britain) and Shaul Walter (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuzzy matching system matching data records in one or more data sets based on user-customized selection of multiple fuzzy matching algorithms. Possible matches may be displayed to a user, who provides feedback on the accuracy of the matches, which may then be u...