ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,369, issued on July 29, was assigned to SB Technology Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Detecting and fixing map artifacts" was invented by Patrick Loughrin Neary (Hyde Park, Utah), Kimberly Margaret Moore (Redwood City, Calif.) and Regupathi Angappan (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example computer-implemented methods and systems for detecting and removing map artifacts are disclosed. One example computer-implemented method includes obtaining a magnetic map of a region. One or more areas in the magnetic map are determined based on a first machine learning model, where each of the one or more areas includes one or more artifacts in ...