ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,777, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG GERMANY (Germany).

"Method for providing route guidance, driver assistance system, and motor vehicle" was invented by Jaqueline Cullmann (Braunschweig, Germany), Julia Schettler (Gifhorn, Germany) and Marcel Varnhorn (Wahrenholz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing route guidance for a driver of a transportation vehicle along a provided navigation route from a start to a destination wherein a check is performed to determine whether the transportation vehicle is in a predefined proximity to the destination based on a predefined criterion, and, in response ...