US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Devices and methods for comparing and selecting alternative navigation routes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,281, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for comparing and selecting alternative navigation routes" was invented by Bradford Moore (San Francisco), Christopher Blumenberg (San Francisco), Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Graham Gyatt (El Granada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and machine-read le media to facilitate intuitive comparison and selection of calculated navigation routes are disclosed. An electronic device for navigation includes a touch-sensitive screen and a processing module for displaying a map, calculating a number or navigation routes ...