ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,486, issued on April 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Address matching from single string to address matching score" was invented by Iraklis Psaroudakis (Zurich), Giulia Carocari (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Andrea Ziani (Redwood Shores, Calif.) and Miroslav Cepek (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for address matching from a single address string to an address matching score. In an embodiment, an address string is received and parsed into parsed address data. Once an address string is parsed into parsed address data, the parsed address data is s...