ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,757, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying and resolving prohibited maneuvers in routes generated by a routing system" was invented by Antonios Karatzoglou (San Francisco), Tijana Bekic (Belgrade, Serbia), Vashutosh Agrawal (Bellevue, Wash.), Mohit Khanna (Bellevue, Wash.), Varun Kakkar (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Robert Evans (Seattle), Jacob Nicholas Whitbeck (Redmond, Wash.), Dragomir Dimitrov Yankov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nikola Perin (Belgrade, Serbia), Nikola Todic (Belgrade, Serbia), Goran Predovic (Bellevue, Wash.) and Aleksandar Samardzija (Belgrade, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...