ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,570, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for finding nearest neighbors" was invented by Matthew Bryson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Vikas Sinha (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manali Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Ehsan Najafabadi (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for finding nearest neighbors. In some embodiments, the system includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit may be configured to perform a method, the method including: selecting, based on a first query vector, a selected method, the selected method being a nearest neighbor sel...