ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,977, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Deep neural network for matching entities in semi-structured data" was invented by Matthias Frank (Heidelberg, Germany), Hoang-Vu Nguyen (Leimen, Germany), Stefan Klaus Baur (Heidelberg, Germany), Alexey Streltsov (Heidelberg, Germany), Jasmin Mankad (Weisloch, Germany), Cordula Guder (Berlin), Konrad Schenk (Potsdam, Germany), Philipp Lukas Jamscikov (Mannheim, Germany) and Rohit Kumar Gupta (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a deep neural network may be utilized to determine matches between candidate pairs of entities, as...