ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,250, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mapsted Corp (Oakville, Canada).
"Localization using tessellated grids" was invented by Sean Huberman (Guelph, Canada), Joshua Karon (Toronto) and Ahmed Mahmood (Milton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples for localization using tessellated grids are described. In an example, a plurality of physical entities can be identified in an indoor space and each physical entity can be georeferenced to a coordinate system. The indoor space can be divided into a grid of polygonal tiles abutting adjacent polygonal tiles, and arranged in a hierarchical structure with the tiles in one level of the...