ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,836, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Airbnb Inc. (San Francisco).
"Representing listings for reservations on map" was invented by Adam James Shutsa (San Francisco), Ang Li (Seattle), Clarence Chin-wei Quah (San Francisco), Devansh Gupta (Jersey City, N.J.), Shuoyuan Lin (Seattle), Hongru Hou (Beijing), Hongwei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Malay Haldar (Foster City, Calif.), Kedar Bellare (San Jose, Calif.), Shanni Weilert (San Jose, Calif.), Sherry Therese Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Soumyadip Banerjee (Burlingame, Calif.), Surbhi Sethi (San Francisco), Vivek Bhardwaj (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaotang Wang (San Francisco) and Yonghua Xu (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* rele...