ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,766, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Access points for maps" was invented by Haroon Baig (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying and navigating to an access point includes receiving a map query; identifying a point of interest that satisfies the map query; identifying multiple access points that have previously been associated with the point of interest; ranking the multiple access points based on user data indicative of a user-specific utility associated with the multiple access points; in response to receiving the map query, providing, for output, a map including: a se...