US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Nov. 11 for "Method, apparatus, and system for associating an object with a spatial budget" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,222, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for associating an object with a spatial budget" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France), Nicolas Neubauer (Berlin) and Jens Unger (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for associating an object with a spatial budget. The approach, for example, involves initiating a scan of an object, an available space, or a combination thereof using a sensor to determine a spatial volume of the object, a spatial volume of the available space for a storage or a placement of the object, or a combinatio...