US Patent Issued to Yellcast on June 24 for "Point of interest data creation for use with location-aware mobile devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,877, issued on June 24, was assigned to Yellcast Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Point of interest data creation for use with location-aware mobile devices" was invented by Ganesan Venkatakrishnan (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Ellenby (San Carlos, Calif.), Thomas William Ellenby (San Jose, Calif.) and Peter Negulescu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interacting between users of mobile devices is provided by initiating a desired interaction at a first user device using a gesture sensed by the first user device, determining a gesture space, submitting a desired interaction request for interaction with associated users within the...