US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Proactive recording of locations for backtracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,223, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Proactive recording of locations for backtracking" was invented by Michael P. Dal Santo (San Francisco), Christine Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam M. Driscoll (Atherton, Calif.), Brandon J. Van Ryswyk (Los Altos, Calif.), Richard B. Warren (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jared K. McGann (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory machine-readable mediums, and system to provide historical positioning information are described. In an embodiment, a device detects one or more conditions in user contextual data that trigger collection of a set of ...