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Article: German Inventors Develop Navigational Device Available Data Route Making Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 27 -- Arne Friedrichs and Gerd Draeger, both of Braunschweig, Germany, and Volker Skwarek of Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany, have developed a method for making available route data to a navigational device.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "For the purpose of making available route data for a navigational device, an overall route is divided up into route segments which each include a part of the overall route. A first route segment is transmitted to the navigational device, upon its request, which around the starting point includes a starting field including a plurality of possible routes, as well as a main route to an ...