US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 18 for "Rerouting in a navigation system based on updated information" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,367, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Rerouting in a navigation system based on updated information" was invented by Cayden Meyer (Carlingford, Australia) and Scott James Ogden (Chippendale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the des...