ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,223, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Transforming scale ring" was invented by Su Chuin Leong (Oakland, Calif.), Alistair Milne (Seattle), Christopher Milan Raykovich (Seattle), Demi Boe (Burlingame, Calif.), Luke Weijia Xu (Wayland, Mass.) and Ashley Surdin Proctor (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a map scale, using a computing device having one or more processors, comprising providing a geographic area for display on a display of a device, receiving information corresponding to a first input associated with a geographic location within the geographic are...