ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,876, issued on May 5, was assigned to Reltio Inc. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Flexible entity resolution networks" was invented by Anshuman Kanwar (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robin Sylvester (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other techniques, techniques for machine learning-based entity resolution are described. An example method includes receiving an entity resolution request, the entity resolution request indicating a first entity and a second entity; identifying a plurality of first attributes in a data model; identifying a plurality of second attributes in the data model; creating a first string based on the plurality o...