ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,850, issued on April 8, was assigned to Match Group Americas LLC (Dallas).

"System and method for matching using location information" was invented by Robinne Burrell (Los Angeles), Anna M. Schneider (Fort Worth, Texas), Sharmistha Dubey (Coppell, Texas), Shane Henderson (Allen, Texas) and Deryl Dorsett (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving first historical location information identifying a first location area at which a first user was present at a first time and receiving second location information identifying a second location area at which a secon...