ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,138, issued on June 16, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load balancing for map application route selection and output" was invented by Michael Charles Todasco (San Jose, Calif.), Gautam Madaan (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy Resudek (San Jose, Calif.), Braden Christopher Ericson (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng Tian (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiri Medlen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detecte...