US Patent Issued to SAS Institute on March 17 for "Text string comparison for duplicate or near-duplicate text documents identified using automated near-duplicate detection for text documents" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,198, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Text string comparison for duplicate or near-duplicate text documents identified using automated near-duplicate detection for text documents" was invented by Fan Wang (Beijing), Teresa S. Jade (Cary, N.C.) and Xu Yang (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide for text string comparison for documents identified using automated near-duplicate detection. In one example, a system can receive a pair of documents. The system can extract text strings from the documents. The system can normalize the extracted text strings using a ...