ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,393, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Determining relevance of points of interest to a user" was invented by Zoltan Gyongyi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Frank Worsley (San Francisco) and Darryl DeWeese (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus related to determining points of interest based on content of one or more sources associated with a user. Relevance scores are determined for the points of interest based on additional information associated with the user and the content. Point of interest information that is related to the points of interest is provided based on t...