ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,341, issued on April 7, was assigned to Discovery.com LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for providing notifications based on geographic location" was invented by Brian F. Roberts (Dallas), Chad Peltola (Fairfield, Conn.), Jill Mulligan (Greenwich, Conn.), Charles Robertson (Seattle), Kyle Jackson (New York) and Enrique Florendo (Westlake Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for apprising a user of a proximately located aspect-of-interest are disclosed. One method may include: receiving an indication of a geographic location associated with the user; identifying an aspect associated with a multimedia co...