US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on March 4 for "Method, apparatus, and system for providing linear feature detection of cartographic features" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,519, issued on March 4, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for providing linear feature detection of cartographic features" was invented by Qi Mao (Arlington, Texas) and Zhenhua Zhang (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for linear feature detection of cartographic features. The approach, for example, involves receiving a plurality of linear feature detections that represent one or more linear features of a geographic environment and are detected using at least one sensor. The approach also involves clustering the plurality of linear feature detections ...