US Patent Issued to BYTEDANCE on April 29 for "System, method, and computer program product for automated discovery, curation and editing of online local content" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,838, issued on April 29, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System, method, and computer program product for automated discovery, curation and editing of online local content" was invented by Roger Henry Castillo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Thomas Jack (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods are provided for determining and displaying local content. One example method may comprise receiving input to open a mobile application at a mobile device, and without any additional input, accessing a location service of the GPS enabled mobile device to determine a GPS location and automatically generating a que...