ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,178, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Transforming and navigating historical map images" was invented by Ivan Augusto Sanchez-Rosito (Spanish Fork, Utah), Syed Zahid Khadri (Mountain View, Calif.), Marisa Brooke Jensen (Lehi, Utah), Monica Niehaus (San Francisco), Brett Johnson (Saratoga Springs, Utah) and Kaleb Benjamin White (Herriman, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transforming and navigating historical map images are presented. The systems and methods embodiments facilitate providing, searching for, retrieving, transforming, and/or navigating a historical ...