ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,906, issued on April 22, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and methods for providing vehicle signature reduction" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin) and Marko Tuukkanen (Tuukkanen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing signature reduction for a vehicle. For example, the apparatus receives a destination for a vehicle as input, selects a subset from a plurality of road segments as a route from a location to the destination, and outputs the route or a portion thereof. The subset is selected based on association of ea...