US Patent Issued to WOVEN BY TOYOTA on Jan. 13 for "Map update device, method, and computer program for updating map" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,497, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Map update device, method, and computer program for updating map" was invented by Masahiro Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map update device includes a processor configured to identify one or more registered features within a predetermined distance of the position of a feature indicated by feature data received from a vehicle among individual registered features represented in map information, associate the feature indicated by the feature data with a registered feature of the same type as the feature indicated by the feature data or of a ...