ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,252, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Grouping maneuvers for display in a navigation presentation" was invented by Justin M. Strawn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adam B. Findley (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Nathan L. Fillhardt (Scott Valley, Calif.), Brian J. Andrich (San Fracisco, Calif.), Usama M. Hajj (San Fracisco, Calif.) and Tadayasu Sasada (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel methods for generating a navigation presentation that displays a device navigating a route on a map. The method of some embodiments uses a virtual camera that, b...