ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,353, issued on July 1, was assigned to Foundat Pty Ltd (Gwelup, Australia).
"Geographically referencing an item" was invented by Leigh James Dowie (Gwelup, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for geographically referencing an item is disclosed. The system comprises at least one processor which is operable to make an item searchable by geographical reference information (GRI), thereby creating a georeferenced item. A database search method is described. The method includes the ability to apply GRI, which may be in the form of any point in space, one dimensional, two dimensional or three dimensional shape, to any type of N...