ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,469, issued on April 21, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating a time-of-arrival at a destination" was invented by Daniel Rolf (Berlin) and Raul Cajias (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of estimating a travel time along a route. Methods may include: obtaining a route between an origin and a destination, where the route includes a plurality of road links; identifying a subset of road links of the plurality of road links; providing an identification of each road link of the subset of road links to a service provider; r...