ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,251, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for generating synthetic ground truth drive and sensor observation data" was invented by Landis Huffman (Chicago), Nilesh Kadam (Mumbai, India), Dennis Scott Williamson (Wheaton, Ill.), Roberto Raggi (Berlin), James D. Lynch (Waterloo, Iowa), Prasad Kavuri (Chicago), Shishir B. Saxena (Mumbai, India) and Sanjay Kumar Boddhu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for generating synthetic ground truth drive and sensor observation data. The approach, for instance, receiving, by a processor, a first i...