ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,891, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Integration of web and media snippets into map applications" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to integrating web content into a map application. A query is sent from the map application. At least one snippet of web content identified as relevant to the query is received in response to the query, the at least one snippet of content including a portion of media or textual content from a source on the web. The portion of media or textual content is formatted ...