ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,054, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques to determine region route guiding points using convergence circles" was invented by Bijendra Singh (Cedar Park, Texas), Anoop Aroor (Boston), William Cathey Diederich (Brighton, Mass.) and Annaleah Ernst (Kenai, Alaska).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a route for a computer-guided vehicle are disclosed. A server device can receive a graph with an ordered connection of regions of a map of a space. The computer system can determine a start point and an end point in the graph that define a subset of the points in the graph. The ...