ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,950, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Mapping content delivery" was invented by William Waldrep (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Carrino (Redwood City, Calif.), Peter Wilczynski (San Francisco) and Daniel Paquette (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to mapping content delivery. A client device provides, to a map management server, a request for a map of a geographic region. The client device receives, from the map management server, an identification of tiles for the map. The client device provides, to a first tile server, a request for the tiles for the...