US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on June 9 for "Systems and methods for computer-based address validation and correction" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,290, issued on June 9, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for computer-based address validation and correction" was invented by Roch Lefebvre (Gatineau, Canada), Keith Wiersema (Chicago) and Diego Pires Plentz (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For users to receive products that they purchased online, they may provide their delivery addresses to the e-commerce system. To minimize the number of incorrect delivery addresses processed by the e-commerce system, an address validation system may be used. However, technical challenges exist for such systems. A validation system which searches an address database...