ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,857, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Mobile-based cartographic control of display content" was invented by Ebony James Charlton (Los Angeles), Dhritiman Sagar (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content display system can control which content and how the content is displayed based on viewing parameters, such as a map zoom level, and physical distance parameters, e.g., a geo-fence distance and an icon visibility distance. Different combinations of input (e.g., zoom level and physical distances) yield a myriad of pre-set content displays on...