US Patent Issued to GRABTAXI HOLDINGS on Dec. 9 for "Method and system for deduplicating point of interest databases" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,590, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system for deduplicating point of interest databases" was invented by Wenjie Xu (Singapore), Sien Yi Tan (Singapore) and Yosua Michael Maranatha (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated computer implemented method of deduplicating point of interest of computer implemented database including: standardizing data of a pair of records, wherein equivalent words with different spelling may be normalized to a single spelling; classifying the pair of records into a category of pre-defined address categories; carrying out a category specif...