ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,631, issued on March 4, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).
"Generating, from data of first location on surface, data for alternate but equivalent second location on the surface" was invented by Mark Janzen (Seattle), Gregory T. Kavounas (Bellevue, Wash.), Rohit Ghule (Seattle) and Charles M. Morrisette (Everett, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, given a surface that has domains on it and a first location, a second location is generated in the surface. The second location belongs in the same domains as the first location, and does not belong in the same domains as the second location. An advantage can be that, ...