US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "Using a machine-trained model that provides an estimated time-of-arrival and distribution parameters" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,480, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using a machine-trained model that provides an estimated time-of-arrival and distribution parameters" was invented by Chiqun Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dragomir Dimitrov Yankov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Robert Evans (Seattle), Antonios Karatzoglou (San Francisco) and Florin Sabau (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique generates estimated time-of-arrival (ETA) information to assist in navigating from one physical location to another. The technique uses a computer-implemented route-finding engine to identify a route bet...