ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,277, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zimeno Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).
"Mapping" was invented by Benjamin Meier Gatten (Pleasanton, Calif.), Srikanth Gurram (Bangalore, India), Sagar Kumar Sethi (Madhapur, India) and Sadasivudu Malladi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mapping system may include a display, a global positioning satellite (GPS) system to be carried by a vehicle and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a polygon representing a geographic boundary of a first region based on signals received from the GPS system of the vehicle as the vehicle travels to enclose the first region, to es...