ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,665, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Beacon-based device location interface" was invented by Varun Krishna (Chicago), Marius Ciocirlan (Chicago), Peter Bergstrom (Chicago) and Benjamin Kim (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to output a user interface depicting a plurality of locations to a merchant device and related methods and computer program products are discussed herein. The apparatus is configured, according to some embodiments, to associate beacon identifier data that identifies a plurality of communication beacons with a plurality of locations of interest. Th...