US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Secure datastore of searchable heterogenous geospatial data" (Texas, South Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,791, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure datastore of searchable heterogenous geospatial data" was invented by Naeem Altaf (Round Rock, Texas), Colin Alstad (Charleston, S.C.), Minsik Lee (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Sowmya Janakiraman (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for publishing immutable references to geospatial data. In embodiments, a method includes identifying geospatial data of a data provider, wherein the geospatial data is associated with a grid element of a discrete global grid (DGG); generating, in a grid element data stor...