ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,226, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Refining location estimates and reverse geocoding based on a user profile" was invented by Christopher Lambert (San Francisco), Michael Chu (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Rohan Seth (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to enhancement or refinement of estimated locations based upon user-specific information. Upon user authorization, geographical information is extracted from a number of user-related sources, including the web browser history, search history, maps history, address book, e-mail archives and calendar entrie...