ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,023, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Message based navigational assistance" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for using incoming communications to generate suggestions for navigation. The disclosed technology can include accessing route data that includes information associated with navigation from a starting location to a destination. Based on the route data, one or more routes from the starting location to the destination can be determined. Message data including...