ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,974, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Informational and advertiser links for use in web mapping services" was invented by Yushi Jing (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shumeet Baluja (Leesburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying groups of local features in an image and presenting advertisement information associated with stored images that match one or more features within the group of local features are described. The techniques include providing an image, identifying a region of interest in the image, providing a user-selectable link associated with the region of interest i...