ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,916, issued on April 22, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for map geometry generation based on data aggregation and conflation with statistical analysis" was invented by Fei Tang (Aarau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided automatically creating map geometry from data from various sources gathered within a geographical area using data aggregation and conflation with statistical analysis. Methods may include: receiving observation data associated with a geographic area; rasterizing objects within the observation data onto correspondin...