New Delhi, NFAPost: Delhivery, India’s largest and fastest-growing fully-integrated logistics services company, has been awarded a US Patent – US 11,343,638 B2 (45) on May 24, 2022.
The patent covers Delhivery’s innovation in address verification and location mapping – ‘System and method for validating geographic location accuracy for an address.’
Addfix, Delhivery’s proprietary address disambiguation system, takes unstructured and incomplete or error-ridden addresses provided by customers and breaks them down into different geographical elements like country, state, city/town, locality, street, landmark, building, postal code, etc. to give an accurate location for an address.
The system has been built using intelligence collected from over a billion successful deliveries since inception and is designed to clock greater accuracy with every passing delivery.
Commenting on the announcement, Delhivery Executive Director, and Chief Technology Officer Kapil Bharati said the company’s proprietary technology is a core differentiator.
“This patent reiterates its commitment to design tech solutions that increase efficiency and reliability of our customer’s supply chains. We have also externalized Addfix and other location intelligence services to customers across the e-commerce and BFSI sectors,” said Kapil Bharati.
Adding to this, Delhivery Head – Data Products Rajiv Dinesh said Addfix is a core building block for automating and optimising dense mesh network of last mile facilities and drives advanced facility placement (Netplan), service area optimization (Mapper) and automated parcel routing (Flare) capabilities.
“Together, they ensure faster, precise, more reliable deliveries, reduced order returns and higher customer delight for all our clients. The products ingest live data from our operations and allow us to continuously drive productivity and cost efficiencies across our last-mile operations. Our data products are proudly made in India for local as well as global use and are also active in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka,” said Delhivery Head – Data Products Rajiv Dinesh.
About Delhivery
According to the RedSeer Report, Delhivery is India’s largest and fastest-growing fully-integrated logistics services player by revenue as of Fiscal 2021. With its nationwide network covering over 17,000 pin codes, the company provides a full suite of logistics services such as express parcel transportation, PTL,TL freight, cross-border, supply chain, and technology services.
Delhivery has successfully fulfilled over 1 billion shipments since inception and today works with over 23,000 customers, including large & small e-commerce participants, SMEs, and other enterprises & brands. For more information about Delhivery, please visit www.delhivery.com.
