US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Capturing location data for waypoint" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,283, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Capturing location data for waypoint" was invented by Jared K. McGann (San Jose, Calif.) and Qing Tao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to provide location services are described. An example method may include receiving a request to display at least one waypoint user interface object on an electronic device user interface, sending a request to duty cycle waypoint information requests for the at least one waypoint user interface object, wherein the duty cycle has a first time period based on a motion classification, and where a waypoi...