ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,636, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Entity linking and filtering using efficient search tree and machine learning representations" was invented by Sundeep Gullapudi (Singapore), Rajesh Vellore Arumugam (Singapore), Matthias Frank (Heidelberg, Germany) and Wei Xia (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a ML system that reduces a number of target items from consideration as potential matches to a query item using token embeddings and a search tree."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2025, under Application No. 19/014,340.

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