US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for providing an updated map model" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,510, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for providing an updated map model" was invented by Dennis Scott Williamson (Wheaton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods described herein relate to updating a map model. Methods may include receiving data from a vehicle pertaining to a location; comparing the received data pertaining to the location to historical data pertaining to the same location; and based at least in part upon a comparison of the received data pertaining to the location and the historical data pertaining to the same location, generating an internal...