ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,924, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for generating scenic routes" was invented by Patricia Grealish-Rust (Dighton, Mass.), Theobolt N. Leung (San Francisco) and Kenneth Jason Sanchez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a scenic route including: receiving, by one or more processors, a user request from a user for directions from an origin location to a destination location; identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more route segments of one or more routes between the origin location and the destination location based o...