Presenting Terrorizer: an algorithm for consolidating company names in patent assignees

arXiv:2403.12083v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The problem of disambiguation of company names poses a significant challenge in extracting useful information from patents. This issue biases research outcomes as it mostly underestimates the number of patents attributed to companies, particularly multinational corporations which file patents under a plethora of names, including alternate spellings of the same entity and, eventually, companies' subsidiaries. To date, addressing these challenges has relied on labor-intensive dictionary based or string matching approaches, leaving the problem of patents' …

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