ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,680, issued on April 8, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Karlsbad, Germany) and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"System and method for version-adaptive navigation services" was invented by Stefan Baptist (Eichenau, Germany), Hans-Joerg Peter (Munich), Benjamin Quattelbaum (Munich) and Michael Westphal (Rechtmehring, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for translating route guidance between a navigation system and a navigation service when different versions of a map database are being used. The navigation service applies a version translation table to identify differences between the...