ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,780, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Navigating with mobile device and head-worn device" was invented by Christopher Ross (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Juo-Hsin Chen (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device may present a map, the map including a location indication, the location indication indicating a location of a destination. The mobile device may determine that a user has looked away from the mobile device. The mobile device may, in response to determining that the user has looked away from the mobile device, send a direction instruction to a head-mounted device, the direction ...