ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,752, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for determining a navigation route" was invented by Mohamed Kari (Essen, Germany), Luis Falconeri Sousa Pinto Coelho (Berlin), Philipp Hallgarten (Weil der Stadt, Germany), David Bethge (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany) and Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for determining a navigation route between a start point and a target point. The method includes setting the start and target points, and then generating a road map with a ...