US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 30 for "Integrating maps and street views" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,026, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Integrating maps and street views" was invented by Sreejit Unnikrishnan (Bangalore, India), Arijit De (Bangalore, India), Vihari Venkata Komaragiri (Bangalore, India) and Lalitesh Kumar Katragadda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improved integration of an overhead representation (e.g., a map) with a street view representation. A user interface with at least two regions is output for display to a user. One region includes an overhead representation of an area and an interactive control overlaid onto the overhead repres...