ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,020, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tom Tom Global Content B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Methods and systems using digital map data" was invented by Peter Foeke de Bakker (Barendrecht, Netherlands) and Cornelis Pieter Schuerman (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a methods and systems for compensating for changes in the absolute position of locations with respect to the Earth's surface which occur over time due to crustal dynamics. The invention is particularly, although not exclusively, concerned with such compensation in the context of methods using digital map data, for exam...