ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,810, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for requesting an updated user location" was invented by Joseph LaPenna (San Francisco) and Chris Lambert (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is disclosed for requesting an updated location, including a point of interest, from a user for display on an interactive map. On receiving from an interested user a request for a point of interest associated with a subscribed user's current location, a request is transmitted to the subscribed user to check-in to the point of interest. In response to the request, the subs...