ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,255, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to You Map Inc. (Baltimore).
"Creating and utilizing map channels" was invented by Stephen Constantinides (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for displaying portions of a social network. The method can include: receiving, from a client device, a first transmission including a first selection of a first channel including at least a portion of a map, where the first transmission includes a first identification of a selecting user account of the social network, and where the first channel is configured to access a first layer, and where the first layer includes a first set of s...