US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Labeling a significant location based on contextual data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,914, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Labeling a significant location based on contextual data" was invented by Michael P. Dal Santo (San Francisco), Hyo Jeong Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Krishna M. Behara (Santa Clara, Calif.), Marcos R. Vescovi (Capitola, Calif.), Patrick Thomas Dillon (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard B. Warren (Redwood City, Calif.), Ronald K. Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Xufeng Han (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on co...