US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for generating maps from aligned geospatial observations" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,939, issued on July 15, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for generating maps from aligned geospatial observations" was invented by Tero Juhani Keski-Valkama (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for learning to generate maps from raw geospatial observations from sensors traveling within an environment. Methods may include: processing geospatial observations from discrete trajectories through an iterative attention model incorporating a Gated Recurrent Unit gating pattern to obtain a feature summary; determining a drive offse...