US Patent Issued to PayPal on March 17 for "Distributed graph-based clustering" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,167, issued on March 17, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed graph-based clustering" was invented by Tom Bar Yacov (Binyamina, Israel), Omer Ornan (Maale Adumim, Israel), Ben Rahamim (Ashdod, Israel) and Inbal Honigman (Tel Aviv District, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying patterns in data including determining a set of first attributes for a first dataset corresponding to a plurality of vertices, performing a first join operation based on the set of first attributes, classifying the first dataset to a collection of buckets based on the set of first attributes, each res...