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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2001
Applicants:
Abel Wolman, White Salmon, WA (US);
Jeff B. Glickman, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Inventors:
Abel Wolman, White Salmon, WA (US);
Jeff B. Glickman, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data merging/fusion comprises using a preprocessing step, an energy minimization step, and a postprocessing step to merge or fuse data. In a particular embodiment, ordinal data are processed by mapping the ordinal data to a lower triangular matrix of ordinal data, processing the matrix using non-metric individual differences multidimensional scaling and subsequently processing the result.