US Patent Issued to Lenovo (United States) on May 27 for "Method for contextual navigation direction orientation" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,421, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Method for contextual navigation direction orientation" was invented by Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Mark Delaney (Raleigh, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), John C. Mese (Cary, N.C.) and Arnold Weksler (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for setting an orientation mode includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to a context for a route to be navigated by a user. In various examples, the code causes the processor to determine an orientation mode for the context. In variou...