US Patent Issued to UNL Network on May 13 for "System and method for location domain name service" (Dutch, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,012, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNL Network B.V. (Amsterdam).

"System and method for location domain name service" was invented by Xander van der Heijden (Singapore), Emre Turan (Amsterdam) and Bulent Ozel (Bloemendaal, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clusters of locations on a geographic grid are mapped into human-friendly domain names wherein the location hierarchy is represented by a subdomain hierarchy. The resolver of the so-called location domain name service (LDNS) maps the domain name to a unique identifier of the cluster that is used as a pointer to a plurality of geohashes that are highly compressed accord...