ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,243, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method and apparatus for a region discovery service" was invented by Petri Rauhala (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Blomqvist (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, etc. for providing a geopolitical region discovery service comprising obtaining an indication of at least a first location an end user device; wherein the indication of a first location is obtained at a predefined time interval, obtaining geopolitical compliance data for one or more geopolitical areas proximate to the first location of the end user device, determining...