ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,655, issued on June 3, was assigned to FERRARI S.p.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Device for calculating driving routes for use in a motor vehicle and method for calculating driving routes" was invented by Stefano Varisco (Modena, Italy) and Andrea Secondi (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to calculate a driving route includes the steps of acquiring information corresponding to a departure place of the motor vehicle and to a target destination, determining a road map comprising a departure point and an arrival point of the driving route associated with the departure place and with the destination, respectively, calculating ...