ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,367, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Collective vehicle traffic routing" was invented by David M. Barth (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide a route and turn-by-turn directions based on estimates of current and future traffic along the route. A client device may request turn-by-turn directions between an initial and a final location. A server may identify a plurality of routes between the locations. Each route of the plurality of routes may be divided into route segments. For each route segment of a particular route, the server may estimate a travel time. The trav...