ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,772, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, signal processing method, and mobile device" was invented by Tatsuya Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Chao Wang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a program, and a mobile device enabling to obtain an occupancy grid map in which an appropriate path can be set.The signal processing device includes: a map creation unit configured to create an occupancy grid map indicating a presence or absence of an object in a unit of a grid on the basis of first sensor data from...