US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 17 for "Location-based searching using a search area that corresponds to a geographical location of a computing device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,207, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Location-based searching using a search area that corresponds to a geographical location of a computing device" was invented by Tak Keung Cheng (Los Altos, Calif.) and James R. von Behren (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing ...