US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for detecting and mapping LIDAR blind spots in parking garages" (Finnish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,748, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for detecting and mapping LIDAR blind spots in parking garages" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France), Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland), Eckhart Koppen (Tampere, Finland) and Tiitus Hiltunen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for detecting LIDAR blind spots in parking garages. This approach may comprise receiving floor layout data of a parking garage and, based on the received floor layout data, determining at least one additional floor layout data for a floor of a parking garag...