US Patent Issued to Mapbox on Feb. 10 for "Map tile culling for displaying globe representations in an electronic map system" (Finnish, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,240, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mapbox Inc..

"Map tile culling for displaying globe representations in an electronic map system" was invented by Fouad Valadbeigi (Lodz, Poland) and Mikko Pulkki (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functionality of an electronic map system allows the more efficient rendering of a map on the surface of a globe. The functionality includes culling functionality to more effectively remove from further processing the "tiles" of map data that will not end up being displayed on the globe. The culling functionality analyzes factors such as the present zoom level, a relationship of a tile to a map ...