ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,765, issued on March 18, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for collecting and maintaining road event data" was invented by Aparna Rajagopal (Mumbai, India), Abhishek Singh (Mumbai, India), Kripa Nair (Maharashtra, India), Chirag Golechha (Rajasthan, India) and Zhenhua Zhang (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are disclosed for collecting and maintaining road event information, where point-based road event location data from transportation authorities, construction companies, vehicle sensors, or combinations thereof, is susceptible to location sensor errors, digit...