ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,241, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Visitation tracking system" was invented by Xueyin Chen (Los Angeles) and Mehrdad Jahangiri (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system to facilitate the identification of geo-cells, and the distribution of media content. A visitation tracking system is configured to retrieve location data from a client device, identify a geo-cell from among a set of geo-cells based on the location data, access a database that comprises media content associated with one or more physical location within the geo-cell, ranking a ...