US Patent Issued to FOURSQUARE LABS on March 17 for "System and method for data collection to validate location data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,135, issued on March 17, was assigned to FOURSQUARE LABS INC. (New York).

"System and method for data collection to validate location data" was invented by David Shim (Seattle), Brad Bicknell (Seattle), George Varghese (Kirkland, Wash.), Nick Gerner (Seattle) and Weilie Yi (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection system that provides the means to collect, store and make data available for a location analytics inference pipeline. The system incorporates a feedback mechanism enabling algorithms produced from the inference pipeline to drive the collection strategy to yield higher data quality and to produce ref...