ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,596, issued on March 31, was assigned to Expedia Inc. (Seattle).
"Hierarchical region of interest clustering" was invented by Matteo Bastiani (Geneva) and Raphael Hamez (Geneva).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for clustering and organizing geographical locations into regions of interest (ROI) within a hierarchical graph. The ROI generation system may generate a graph containing geographical entities and the relationships between each geographical entity. Each geographical entity can be represented as a node, and the relationships between geographical entities may be represented as edges between nodes. Each edge may...