ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,136, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Geospatially informed resource utilization" was invented by Yan Mayster (Aurora, Colo.), Robert Bruce Bahnsen (Boulder, Colo.) and Brian D. Shucker (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting physical location usage for a plurality of particular locations. Methods can include obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the given geographic area, wherein the 3D representation depicts a view of the given geographic area from a specified...