US Patent Issued to HERE Global on April 22 for "Method, apparatus, and system for computing a spatial footprint index" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,505, issued on April 22, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for computing a spatial footprint index" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin) and Gianpietro Battistutti (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed for computing a spatial footprint index. The approach involves, for example, receiving, by one or more processors, information indicating that one or more physical items are associated with a user, a set of users, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves determining, by the one or more processors, spatial data indicating a physical space...