ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,236, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Map positioning via indication of turn intention" was invented by Jason Meyer Quint (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kok Wei Koh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented methods, systems, and vehicles for detecting an intention to make a turn and automatically changing a view presented by the navigation system to increase a viewable portion of the turn. In an illustrative embodiment, a system includes a computing device that includes a processor and computer-readable media configured to store compute...