US Patent Issued to TomTom Navigation on July 14 for "Generating an indication of where a mobile unit can move to" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,820, issued on July 14, was assigned to TomTom Navigation B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Generating an indication of where a mobile unit can move to" was invented by Jurgen Werber (Amsterdam), Tobias Ludwig (Amsterdam) and Kai Howelmeyer (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an indication of where, within a geographical region, a mobile unit can move to from a specified origin in the geographical region using a network of navigable elements in the geographical region and in accordance with a total movement budget specified for the mobile unit, the method including: for each sub-region of a set of one or more sub-region...