US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 16 for "Focused map-based context information surfacing" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,233, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Focused map-based context information surfacing" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Donald Giovannini (Venice, Calif.) and Daniel Rakhamimov (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a social media platform provides a map window that displays an interactive map that is movable within the map window responsive to user input. User icons for respective friend users of a user associated with a client device on which the map-based GUI is generated are displayed in the...