US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Jan. 13 for "Method for ascertaining an attribute on a digital map for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,489, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for ascertaining an attribute on a digital map for a vehicle" was invented by Jan Wolter (Hannover, Germany) and Roland Homeier (Wennigsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assigning a map attribute in an digital map for a vehicle. The method includes: ascertaining a validity range of the map attribute stored in absolute coordinates in relation to a reference line of the digital map; at least one base point of a defined geometry being ascertained originating from the map attribute using a defined segment of the reference line of...