US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on May 20 for "Environmental map management apparatus, environmental map management method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,008, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Environmental map management apparatus, environmental map management method, and program" was invented by Yoshinori Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an environmental map management apparatus, an environmental map management method, and a program that can correct an environmental map to achieve an accurate association between the environmental map and a map indicated by given map data provided by a given map service. A common environmental map data storage unit (64) stores environmental map data that is generated based on sens...