US Patent Issued to HERE Global on April 15 for "Method, apparatus, and system for location sharing using a LiDAR-based location signature" (Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,729, issued on April 15, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for location sharing using a LiDAR-based location signature" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin), Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland) and Eckhart Koppen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for location sharing using a LiDAR-based location signature. The approach involves, for example, receiving a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scan of a location captured by a LiDAR sensor of a portable device. The approach also involves processing the LiDAR scan to generate a Li...