ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,008, issued on April 7, was assigned to 42DOT INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating travel path based on distance and road class" was invented by Seung Hyun Ji (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing multipath search. The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may calculate a distance between an origin point and a destination point in a group of destination points. In addition, the method may generate a travel path between the origin point and the destination point using a first path-finding method when th...