ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,747, issued on July 29, was assigned to APTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LLC (Provo, Utah).

"Automatic mapping application for service providers" was invented by Derrick Royce (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile computing systems and method for generating a map and associate tasks with their respective positions on the map. First, the mobile computing system is configured to determine a location of itself and generate a map of an area including the determined location. Further, a movement of the mobile computing system is tracked and updated on the map. The mobile computing system is further configured to receive an indication tha...