ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,004, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Adaptive spatial density based clustering" was invented by Xabier Jaureguiberry (Vincennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for identifying the habitual places of a user, the habitual places of a user being the places where the user spends most of his/her time. In some embodiments, historical location information of a user is accessed, and a plurality of visit points are identified based on the historical location information. The plurality of visit points is clustered into a plurality of clusters. Each one of the clusters is...