US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Dec. 23 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing trajectories and stay points" (German, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,035, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing trajectories and stay points" was invented by Elena Vidyakina (Berlin), Gavin Brown (Berlin), Elena Mumford (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ori Dov (Berlin), Olivier Dousse (Berlin), Johannes Braese (Berlin) and Stefano Bennati (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing of trajectories of mobile devices through the obfuscation of stay points. Methods may include: receiving probe data points of a trajectory in real-time or near real-time from a prob...