ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,659, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for supervised machine learning for matching addresses and buildings" was invented by Puyang Ma (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided supervised machine learning for matching addresses and buildings. Particularly, a machine learning model may be provided that is trained to identify a building outline within a map that is most likely associated with a given delivery address. A candidate set of buildings that may potentially be associated with the delivery address are determined and provided to the...