ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,570, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lob.com Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for address verification" was invented by Marcus Gartner (San Francisco) and David Currie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for address verification preferably includes: receiving an unverified address; parsing the unverified address into address elements; determining a candidate address set based on the address elements; determining an address comparison set from the verified address database; selecting an intended address from the address comparison set; optionally facilitating use of the intended address; and optionally ...