US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 14 for "Displaying personalized landmarks in a mapping application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,653, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Displaying personalized landmarks in a mapping application" was invented by Haroon Baig (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ankit Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide personalized data for display on a map, a server device obtains location data for a user and identifies locations that are familiar to the user based on the frequency and recency in which the user visits the locations. The server device then provides the familiar locations in search results/suggestions and annotates the familiar locations with a description of a relati...