US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on July 15 for "Geo-fence based coordinate data processing method and apparatus, and computer device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,046, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Geo-fence based coordinate data processing method and apparatus, and computer device" was invented by Funing Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geo-fence based coordinate data processing method includes: obtaining an address text and a corresponding fence identifier; performing semantic extension on the address text to obtain a plurality of extended addresses; converting each of the extended addresses into corresponding geographic coordinates; recognizing key address elements in the plurality of extended addresses; screening the...