US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for maps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,653, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for maps" was invented by Fiona P. O'Leary (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Julian K. Missig (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device concurrently presents a navigation user interface element with a respective physical location designated and a content element including content corresponding to the respective physical location. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents navigation from...