ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,495, issued on July 15, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus and computer program product for syntax based dynamic audio shifting" was invented by Francesco Grani (Berlin), Thomas Lucka (Fahrland, Germany) and Mario Lopez Batres (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for providing syntax-based spatial auditory cues to facilitate user interaction with navigational assistance or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control. Methods may include: receiving an indication of location based information; parsing the location based in...