US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Progressive display in multi-zoom digital map" (California, Arkansas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,814, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Progressive display in multi-zoom digital map" was invented by Gianluca Donato (Los Altos, Calif.), Bradley Herried (Bentonville, Ark.), Dawit Y. Seid (Pleasanton, Calif.), Edward L. Pernicka (Redwood City, Calif.), Madhuwanti A. Vaidya (San Jose, Calif.), Michael J. Foster (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ralph E. Lemke (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ryan P. Crowther (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Surya Prasad Bokam (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to determine information to b...