ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,935, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for resolving points of interest on maps" was invented by Shanni A. Weilert (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Studelska (Bethlehem, Ga.), Ren Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Ievgeniia Gutenko (Port Jefferson, N.Y.), Fang Ji (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrei Makhanov (San Jose, Calif.), Aditya Rane (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jarad M. Fisher (Los Angeles), Akila Suresh (San Jose, Calif.), Ashish C. Nagre (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew Williams (Mountain View, Calif.) and Victor Shugaev (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology improves points-o...