ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,856, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Framework for reverse geocoding for real user monitoring" was invented by Joshua Walters (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a framework for identifying one or more points-of-interest that are geographically proximal to a geographical location of the mobile device. Geographical location information of a mobile device is transformed from a first format to a second format by performing a Mercator projection of the geographical location information in the first format. Using a point-of-interest search memory structure, one o...