US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 4 for "System and method of indicating the distance or the surface of an image of a geographical object" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,704, issued on March 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method of indicating the distance or the surface of an image of a geographical object" was invented by Daniel Joseph Filip (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Timothy Szybalski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided that displays cursors for street level images, where the cursor changes appearance based on the objects in the image, such as the geographic distance between the objects and the camera position and the surface of the objects. For example, the cursor may appear to lie flat against the objects in the imag...