ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,371, issued on July 29, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for updating map data" was invented by Leon Stenneth (Chicago), Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.), Advait Mohan Raut (Virar West, India), Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Weimin Huang (Chicago) and Yuxin Guan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for updating map data. The system, for example, obtains sensor data from one or more user equipment. The sensor data is associated with a road object. Further, the system, determines a first location of a road obser...