US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 13 for "Navigation as a function of a safety metric" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,143, issued on May 13, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Navigation as a function of a safety metric" was invented by Bhumit Patel (Smyrna, Ga.), Wasib Khallil (Lilburn, Ga.) and Iftekhar Alam (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are presented that can leverage safety metrics such as crime or health-based statistics at various geographic locations to supplement or improve navigation application searches or results. For example, navigation search results can be tagged with safety metric alert indicia if a location associated with a search result (or a location associated w...