ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,375, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Polygon search method" was invented by Tatsuro Kimura (Musashino, Japan), Ichibe Naito (Musashino, Japan), Kazuhiro Miyahara (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Isomura (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoya Ikeda (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polygon retrieving method includes converting a random polygonal area indicating a shape of each lane of a road within a predetermined unit area on a map into polygonal information indicated using coordinates of vertexes of the polygonal area and storing the polygonal information in the storage in associa...