US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 7 for "Discovery and ranking of locations for use by geographic context applications" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,984, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Discovery and ranking of locations for use by geographic context applications" was invented by Yan Mayster (Aurora, Colo.), Brian Edmond Brewington (Superior, Colo.), Brian Daniel Shucker (Superior, Colo.) and Marcus Bulach (Pyrmont, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, devices, apparatuses, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for navigation and geocoding. The disclosed technology can perform operations including accessing location data and semantic tags. The location data can include information associated wi...