US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for using visual landmarks in initial navigation" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,383, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using visual landmarks in initial navigation" was invented by Joshua S. Schpok (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route from a current location of a portable device to a destination is determined, where the route includes a sequence of directed sections. Navigation instructions to guide a user of the portable device along the route to the destination are generated. To this end, candidate navigation landmarks perceptible within a 360-degree range of the current location of the portable device are identified using (i) one or more...