ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,298, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for enriching a map representation of a traffic infrastructure" was invented by Andreas Schmitt (Cologne, Germany), Jesus Rodriguez (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuya Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Ming Gao (Harsum, Germany), Oliver Roeth (Elze, Germany) and Keisuke Namura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enriching a map representation of a traffic infrastructure. The method includes: receiving map data of a map representation of a traffic infrastructure, the map representation including pieces of information of a multitude of roadwa...