ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,484, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Self-adaptive geospatial queries" was invented by Xiaojun Luan (Shanghai), Pengshan Zhang (Shanghai), Delin Liu (Shanghai), Nitin S. Sharma (San Francisco) and Zhe Huang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a minimum search region with a threshold number of entities within the minimum search region. In some embodiments, a system selects, based on a location of a user device, a first region, where the location of the device is at a center of the first region. The system executes, based on the first region, a qu...