US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus and methods for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,766, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and methods for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Jeremy Michael Young (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections. In one example, the apparatus identifies an intersection associated with at least two road signs having the same sign type and facing the same direction. The apparatus updates map data to include a datapoin...