ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,281, issued on March 25, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Controlled access of radio map quality information" was invented by Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen (Tampere, Finland), Pavel Ivanov (Tampere, Finland), Marko Luomi (Lempaala, Finland) and Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device stores a radio map comprising map data configured to enable radio-based positioning within a geographic area. The radio map is associated with a plurality of instances of quality information, with each instance of quality information corresponding to a respective location wi...