ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,300, issued on May 6, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic transparency adjustments for a map overlay" was invented by Susanto Sen (Karnataka, India), Shakir Sharfraz Ashfaq Ahamed (Karnataka, India) and Sriram Ponnusamy (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for adjusting a transparency of a map overlay. A mapping application generates for display the map overlay at a first level of transparency depicting at least a portion of a route. The mapping application receives an indication of a current location on the route and based on the...