US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 26 for "Explicit signage visibility cues in driving navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,025, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Explicit signage visibility cues in driving navigation" was invented by Brian Brewington (Mountain View, Calif.) and Matt Strosnick (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide navigation instructions with indications of visibility of visual aids during navigation, a computing device receives a request from a user for navigation directions from a starting location to a destination location, and obtains a set of navigation directions for traversing from the starting location to the destination location along a route in response to the requ...