ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,948, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for map data conflation" was invented by Nileshkumar Kadam (Pune, India), Xiang Liu (Berlin), Ricky Singh (Assam, India), Jivitesh Sharma (Haryana, India) and Ganesh Singadkar (Aurangabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided automatically creating map objects from data from various sources gathered within a geographical area using data aggregation and conflation. Methods may include: receiving observation data associated with a geographic area; identifying at least one observed object...