ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,292, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Interactive voice navigation" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich), Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Blaise Aguera-Arcas (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to interactive voice navigation. In particular, a computing system can provide audio information including one or more navigation instructions to a user via a computing system associated with the user. The computing system can activate an audio sensor associated with the computing system. The computing system can collect, using the audio sensor, audio...