ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,076, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Ad-hoc navigation instructions" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may implement a method for providing navigation information regarding a current trip by a user without the user having previously initiated a navigation session. The method may include receiving a request for navigation information regarding a current trip by a user prior to a user initiating a navigation session, and determining a destination for the current trip. The method may also include generating one or more sets of navigation dire...