ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,220, issued on April 29.
"Pedestrian-oriented navigation app for mobile device" was invented by Joe Cummings (College Park, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing a pedestrian-oriented navigation app for a mobile device. Destination information is received from a pedestrian using a mobile device. The mobile device retrieves pedestrian-oriented mapping data and routing for the navigation of the pedestrian to the destination, determines a current location and direction of the pedestrian based upon GPS data and compass data retrieved from the device, and displays the current loc...