ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,122, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Generating simplified map shapes" was invented by Clayton Black (Minneapolis), Michael Lissick (Minneapolis) and Eric Runquist (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving map data that identifies a layout of physical objects within a physical area, identifying contiguous groups of the physical objects as composite objects, selecting bounding algorithms to use for generating graphical shapes for the composite objects, generating graphical shapes by applying the selecte...