ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,151, issued on April 7, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Location based content system for mobile applications" was invented by Selena Shang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anand Tolani (Saratoga, Calif.), Danny Espinoza (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nandaja Ananthanarayanan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Venugopal Kemthur (Cupertino, Calif.) and Joshua Robert Russell Jacobson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed system...