ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,676, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Supporting multiple roles in voice-enabled navigation" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To determine whether a user is authorized to make a particular audio request during navigation, a client device receives a request for navigation directions from a starting location to a destination location. The client device provides a set of navigation directions for traversing to the destination location along a route. During a navigation session, an audio request related to the route is received from a user. The ...