US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Aug. 26 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing trajectories" (German, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,994, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing trajectories" was invented by Stefano Bennati (Zurich), Johannes Braese (Berlin), Elena Vidyakina (Berlin) and Elena Mumford (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for anonymizing a trajectory. Methods may include: receiving a sequence of probe data points defining a portion of a trajectory, each probe data point defining a location, where an origin includes a starting point of the trajectory and a destination ...