ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,777, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Guided navigation into geofences" was invented by Raj Kumar Raj Joseph (Pickering, Canada) and Jagrati Shringi (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for guided navigation into geofences. In various examples, a GUI of an application executing on a mobile device may display a first geofence surrounding a first delivery or pickup location. A reported location of the mobile device may be displayed on the GUI. A first navigation direction indicating a direction in which to walk to enter the first geofence m...