ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,403, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SoundHound Al IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for computing region centers by point clustering" was invented by Christophe Pierret (Sevres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed that calculate the center of a geographic region. A set of topological/geographical points is received. A set of clusters is determined. A weight for each cluster is computed. The highest weighted cluster is selected. The geographic region center is calculated using the selected cluster. The geographical points can include a key for each point and be filtered by an in...