ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,238, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pointr Ltd. (London).

"Methods and systems for generating local- and global-walkable paths for route guidance" was invented by Haluk Ziya Zorluoglu (Istanbul), Can Tunca (Istanbul) and Gurol Canbek (Ankara, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating local- and global-walkable paths for route guidance. At least one example is a computer-implemented method of generating comprehensive maps for route guidance, the method comprising: determining, by the computing device, a trigger event occurred; determining, by an application executed on the computing device, an initial location of the comput...