ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,959, issued on Sept. 29.
"Systems and methods for interactive digital maps" was invented by Brandon Biggs (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for providing digital audio mapping are provided wherein data representing real or virtual worlds is obtained from internal or external data sources and used to generate a digital auditory map that can be navigated using auditory sound cues. The digital audio map can be created by a digital audio map generator and presented to the user through a digital audio map presentation interface. The digital audio map presentation interface can provide multiple navigation m...