ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,700, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Contextual augmentation of map information using overlays" was invented by Andrew Elder (Greenwood Village, Colo.), John Carrino (Redwood City, Calif.), Lucas Nunno (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Westin Miller (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for displaying and annotating map-based geolocation data at an augmented reality (AR) headset. Users with access to the map-based geolocation data can create or confirm annotations for geospatial data that may be sent to the server comp...