ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,458, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Navigation application with novel declutter mode" was invented by Jonathan L. Berk (Menlo Park, Calif.), Bradley L. Spare (Oceanside, Calif.) and Edward J. Cooper (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentat...