ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,954, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method and apparatus for enhanced lane line attribution" was invented by D Scott Williamson (Wheaton, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating lane line attributions for point locations along a road boundary for use in localization, map building, and map healing. Methods may include: receiving a sequence of geospatial observations from a vehicle traveling along a road segment; identifying, within the sequence of geospatial observations, lane line marking observations; determining,...