ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,179, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for identifying map geospatial features" was invented by James Peter Biagioni (Seattle) and James Kluz (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed apparatuses and methods for identifying map geospatial features include a processor operable to extract, through spatial analysis, geospatial features from map data of a road network at a location, determine, through a similarity analysis, whether two or more of the geospatial features have an identical score beyond an identical score threshold, in response to determining that the ident...