ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,882, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Grindr LLC (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for providing location-based cascading displays" was invented by Joel Joseph Simkhai (Los Angeles), Scott Ryan Lewallen (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Morten Bek Ditlevsen (Denmark, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating user interaction such as within a social network are described. In one implementation, location-based display of images and/or other information associated with other users or entities may be provided. The information may be provided in association with mapping or other positional data or inf...