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Article: Patent No. 7,590,488 Issued on Sept. 15, Assigned to Alpine Electronics for Route Condition Evaluation Method (California Inventor)
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- September 18, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 18 -- Ihung Tu, Torrance, Calif., has developed a route condition evaluation method for a navigation system. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,590,488 on Sept. 15.
The patent has been assigned to Alpine Electronics Inc., Tokyo.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a navigation system evaluates an overall cost of each candidate route by incorporating traffic information such as traffic incident types and traffic flow speeds. An optimum route to the destination is determined by comparing the costs of two or more candidate routes and ...