US Patent Issued to A. P. Moller-Maersk on July 29 for "Determining a virtual representation of at least part of an environment" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,358, issued on July 29, was assigned to A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

"Determining a virtual representation of at least part of an environment" was invented by Patrick Michael Rodey (Svedala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system 1000 for determining a virtual representation of at least part of an environment 800 that is navigable by a ship 700. The system has at least one beacon 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302, 401-403 remote from the ship. The or each beacon comprises at least one sensor 411-415 for sensing surroundings information representative of at least part of the environment, a transmitt...