US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for optimizing a multi-stop tour with flexible meeting locations" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,441, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing a multi-stop tour with flexible meeting locations" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin) and Remco Timmer (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for providing a navigation route for a requesting entity to meet other entities at flexible meeting locations. The approach, for example, involves receiving a request to generate a navigation route to visit a plurality of entities, wherein one or more mobile entities of the plurality of entities are capable of moving from a current location ...