ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,049, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Ride request map displaying undiscovered areas" was invented by Alexander Willem Gerrese (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing an individualized map highlighting undiscovered areas of a locale. In particular, systems and methods are provided for providing a map that visually differentiates areas a user has visited from areas a user has yet to explore. In some implementations, generalized maps are displayed with highlighted and lowlighted areas representing unexplored and explored areas of the map. A generalized m...