ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,478, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for realtime community information exchange" was invented by Uri Levine (Kfar Saba, Israel), Amir Shinar (Moshav Herut, Israel) and Ehud Shabtai (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for traffic mapping service are disclosed for allowing plurality of users having each a navigation device to transmit their locations to a server and optionally to signal to the server their requested destination. The system and method are further capable of calculating traffic parameters such as current traffic speed at a given roa...