ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,549, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Computer-readable media and methods for generating a geospatial image map" was invented by Scott J. Derner (Boise, Idaho) and Patrick Mullarkey (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-readable media and methods for a geospatial image map are disclosed. A computer-readable medium has computer-readable instructions stored thereon. The computer-readable instructions are configured to instruct one or more processors to display a map of a selected geographic region on an electronic display. The map includes geographic sub-regions displayed with...