ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,439, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for accelerating simultaneous localization and mapping and electronic device including the same" was invented by Myungjae Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kichul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Namseop Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongkyu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hongseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for accelerating simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) includes a SLAM processor including a front-end process...