US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle navigation route guidance management" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,244, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vehicle navigation route guidance management" was invented by Ilse Breedvelt (Manotick, Canada), Jeffrey A. Kusnitz (Campbell, Calif.), Jana H Jenkins (Raliegh, N.C.) and John A. Lyons (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to vehicle route guidance management. A first navigation route of a first vehicle can be received. A second navigation route of a second vehicle can be received. The first navigation route can be compared to the second navigation route to determine a currently overlapping section ...