US Patent Issued to SAP on July 14 for "Efficient integer programming search for matching entities using machine learning" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,908, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Efficient integer programming search for matching entities using machine learning" was invented by Hoang-Vu Nguyen (Leimen, Germany), Stefan Klaus Baur (Heidelberg, Germany) and Matthias Frank (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a solution for matching entities in a query table with one or more entities in a target table, in the presence of a constraint on the value sum of the matching targets (hereinafter called the "value constraint"), using machine learning techniques, is provided. Specifically, a non-linear objective fun...