ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,365, issued on March 18, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for aggregating a route based on high-resolution sampling" was invented by Zhenhua Zhang (Chicago) and Aparna Rajagopal (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for aggregating an incident route based on high-resolution sampling. The approach involves receiving location data points representing a path traveled. The approach also involves generating an initial link set comprising a first predetermined number of traveled link options based on an initial location data point. The approach furthe...