ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,007, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"System and method for chart thumbnail image generation" was invented by Jeff M. Henry (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Kyle R. Peters (Ely, Iowa) and Srinath A. Nandakumar (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating thumbnails is disclosed. The method may include receiving an area map, and chart data having a geographical information set. The method may include generating a plurality of panels having one or more panel corners based on the chart data. The method may include projecting the one or more panel corners onto the area map, ...