US Patent Issued to Tom Tom Global Content on May 6 for "Methods and systems for generating route data" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,298, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tom Tom Global Content B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Methods and systems for generating route data" was invented by Henk van der Molen ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Jeroen Trum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jan Willem van den Brand (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided to extract scan lines data from images of a route, said scan line data comprising only a portion of the an image that extends along a scan line, and to store this data in memory together with respective positional data pertaining to the position of the device traveling along the route in a navigable net...