ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,257, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Map update using images" was invented by Kathryn H. Russo (Boise, Idaho), Aparna U. Limaye (Boise, Idaho) and Gurtaranjit Kaur (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses associated with updating a map using images are described. An apparatus can include a processing resource and a memory resource having instructions executable to a processing resource to monitor a map including a plurality of locations, receive, at the processing resource, the memory resource, or both, and from a first source, image data associated with a first...