ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,364, issued on March 18, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for determining routing data using multiple data structures" was invented by David P. Manning (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle routing platform may store, in a first data structure, a value at a logical index for each pair of locations of a plurality of pairs of locations. The logical index, for a pair of locations, indicates whether a travel time has been determined. The vehicle routing platform may store, in a second data structure, an offset index for each predetermined logical ...