ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,759, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Completing feature-based localization maps" was invented by Pierre Lothe (Hildesheim, Germany), Erik Einhorn (Sarstedt, Germany), Hanno Homann (Hannover, Germany), Julian Lindner (Hannover, Germany), Maurice Seer (Elze, Germany) and Moritz Michael Knorr (Hildesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for creating at least one map of vehicle surroundings with the aid of a control unit. It is checked based on a comparison between received measured data and stored or received map data, whether first features, for example semantic fe...