ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,663, issued on June 3, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Dynamic scaling of geospatial data on maps" was invented by Andrew Elder (New York), Cooper Bills (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Reese Glidden (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to display a geographical map overlaid with a marker layer comprising at least one marker; receive input from a user to change a zoom level of the geographical map from a first map scale to a second map scale; display the geographical map at the second map scale; and overlay the marker layer at the second map scale ...