ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,672, issued on July 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing uninterrupted media content during vehicle navigation" was invented by Nishchit Mahajan (Punjab, India) and Ankur Aher (Kalyan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selecting alternate routes with fewer directions during vehicle navigation. The disclosed techniques herein determine directions from route data and direction timestamps for each of the directions. For each direction, a corresponding media asset from media assets in a playlist having a media asset duration that matches...