ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,969, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Interactive transport path with simultaneous metrics viewer" was invented by Ryan C. Denner (San Marcos, Calif.), David B. Mcenroe (Dublin) and Gregory R. Jay (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method for visualizing an interactive transport path including displaying, on a display device, a map viewer comprising a geographic area map. The method further includes displaying, in the geographic area map of the map viewer, one or more trip segment icons corresponding to one or more time intervals of a period of time of the trip. The m...