ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,172, issued on March 17.

"Geolocation name system" was invented by Juan Antonio Padilla Ortiz (Bayamon, Puerto Rico), Wendolin Bosques Cruz (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) and Efrain Enrique Longart Martin (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for representing physical coordinates related to an address in machine readable format, such that said identifier may be used to share location information in lieu of a regular address (street name, city, state, etc.). The system and method comprise assigning an identifier to a first address, dynamically receiving a first set of geographical coordinates related to t...