ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,607, issued on April 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Content-aware navigation instructions" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide content-aware audio navigation instructions, a client device executing a mapping application obtains one or more audio navigation directions for traversing from a starting location to a destination location along a route. The client device also identifies electronic media content playing from a source different from the mapping application which is executing at the client device or in proximity to the client d...