ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,724, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for creating a first map" was invented by Peter Christian Abeling (Hannover, Germany), Ming Gao (Harsum, Germany) and Philipp Rasp (Reusten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a first map. The method includes providing a second map, the second map including at least one predefined path; receiving map data, the map data representing at least one trajectory and at least one further object; and creating the first map starting from the map data, an alignment based on a superimposition of the at least one predefined...