US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 30 for "Mining map data to predict turn restrictions" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,355, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mining map data to predict turn restrictions" was invented by Ivan Webber (Redmond, Wash.), Marius Alexandru Marin (Bellevue, Wash.), Albert Tamazyan (Seattle) and Ming Tan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for mining map data to automatically identify and/or predict turn restrictions. The systems uses street-level imagery to recognize and locate posted signs (e.g., physical signs, electronic signs) that signal, or are in some way related to, a turn restriction at an intersection. Then, the techni...