ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,004, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context aware navigation voice assistant" was invented by Migle Padegimaite (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sammy El Ghazzal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide context-aware audio navigation instructions, a server device obtains sets of audio navigation instructions previously provided to users along with sensor data descriptive of a context in which the audio navigation instructions were provided and an indication of whether a driver correctly responded to the audio navigation instructions. The server device trains a machine learnin...