ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,035, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for providing a LiDAR path signature" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin), Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland) and Eckhart Koppen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for creating a LiDAR path signature. The approach involves, for instance, receiving a plurality of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scans captured by a LiDAR sensor of a portable device as the portable device travels on a path through an environment. The approach also involves processing the plurality...