ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,957, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Indicating location status" was invented by Daisuke Ikeda (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ryoichi Imaizumi (Tokyo), Kaleigh S. Smith (New York) and Keiji Maekawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating location status. A computing device can receive a query from a user device, a current time, and a location for the user device. The computing device identifies results responsive to the query, including one or more business results that are each associated with...