US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Nov. 18 for "Map data update apparatus and map data update method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,177, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Map data update apparatus and map data update method" was invented by Yasushi Kodaka (Tokyo), Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo) and Seigo Kanazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a technique to make it possible to reduce data size of a file used for managing an update of a mesh file. A map data update apparatus updates a specific mesh file on the basis of an update necessity management file having a bit array in which respective positions of a plurality of bits are associated with respective mesh IDs of a plur...