Patents by Inventor Paul Merrell

Paul Merrell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240086040
    Abstract: A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kelvin Ho, Jonah Jones, Yatin Chawathe, Bernhard Seefeld, Paul Merrell, Alirez Ali, Jonathan Siegel, Daniel Otero, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: 11816315
    Abstract: A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kelvin Ho, Jonah Jones, Yatin Chawathe, Bernhard Seefeld, Paul Merrell, Alirez Ali, Jonathan Siegel, Daniel Otero, Su Chuin Leong
  • Publication number: 20230316650
    Abstract: Polygonal shapes can be generated automatically from an example using a graph grammar. The graph grammars can then be used to generate graphs that are locally similar to a given example. An input shape can be disassembled into small pieces called primitives and then the primitives can be reassembled into new graphs. All possible locally similar graphs can be organized into a graph hierarchy and then matching graphs can be found within the graph hierarchy. These matches are used to create a graph grammar that can construct every locally similar graph. The graphs can be generated using the graph grammar and then converted into a planar graph drawing to produce the final shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Paul Merrell
  • Publication number: 20230004269
    Abstract: A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kelvin So, Jonah Jones, Yatin Chawathe, Bernhard Seefeld, Paul Merrell, Alirez Ali, Jonathan Siegel, Daniel Otero, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: 11481091
    Abstract: A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kelvin Ho, Jonah Jones, Yatin Chawathe, Bernhard Seefeld, Paul Merrell, Alirez Ali, Jonathan Siegel, Daniel Otero, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: D791811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D791813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D792460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D829737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D830399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D830407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D835147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Vytas Kisielius, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D868092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D868093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D877765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Su Chuin Leong, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Paul Merrell
  • Patent number: D933691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: D934281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: D994696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: D1006046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: D1008302
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul Merrell, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Vinay Damodar Shet, Jonathan Siegel, Julien Zachary Reneau-Wedeen, Andrew Kisielius Veritas, Daniel Caleb Gordon, Su Chuin Leong