ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,968, issued on April 22, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).
"Determining a resource for a place based on three-dimensional coordinates that define the place" was invented by Charles M. Morrisette (Everett, Wash.), Rohit Ghule (Maharashatra, India), Mark Janzen (Seattle) and Gregory T. Kavounas (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving a dataset and parsing from the dataset an XP coordinate value on an x-axis, a YP coordinate value on a y-axis, and a ZP coordinate value on a z-axis all within a domain having 3-dimensional features. The x-axis and y-axis are perpendicular and define a horizontal earthbound main surf...