ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,843, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Recruit Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for generalized entity matching" was invented by Jin Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuliang Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wataru Hirota (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to generalized entity matching. Techniques can include receiving a data pair of two entities that may be pre-processed to have parsable data structures, and serializing the data pair into a sequence of tokens based on data structure of each entity in the data pair. Techniques can further include encoding the serialized data pair to i...