ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,376, issued on March 18, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Network support for vehicle routing" was invented by Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Arnold Sheynman (Northbrook, Ill.), Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.) and Yuxin Guan (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vehicle routing may be based on wireless network performance data. A vehicle route includes one or more path segments included in the route based on the wireless performance data. The vehicle route may be updated based on updated wireless performance data. Driving assistance features of a vehicle may be enabled by the ...