US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for generating maps from aligned geospatial observations" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,993, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for generating maps from aligned geospatial observations" was invented by Tero Juhani Keski-Valkama (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for learning to generate maps from raw geospatial observations from sensors traveling within an environment. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of sequences of geospatial observations from discrete trajectories; refining a summary entity set representation through iteration over discrete trajectories; determining a drive offset...