ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,379, issued on March 18, was assigned to Airbnb Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mapping preferred locations using multiple arrows" was invented by Francis Sujai Arokiaraj (Bangalore, India) and Senthil Venkatesan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depicting location attributes in a map environment. The method includes receiving a request for parameters about a first type of location. The method includes determining a first set of directional arrows, where each directional arrow is associated with a location and has a first set of properties based on the parameters about the first type of location. The method furthe...