US Patent Issued to NetApp on Jan. 27 for "Waypoint prediction engine(s) for compressing geographical information system data" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,154, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Waypoint prediction engine(s) for compressing geographical information system data" was invented by Gerard Choinka (Dublin) and Anton Krug (Athy, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for providing a waypoint prediction engine and its functions. For example, a waypoint prediction engine may determine navigation data associated with a client device and a source model. The waypoint prediction engine may determine a current waypoint of the client device as the client device trave...