US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on April 7 for "Guidance for collaborative map building and updating" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,014, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Guidance for collaborative map building and updating" was invented by Petter Wannerberg (Stockholm) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative map building method is described in which if it is determined, for example, by a SLAM network edge, that a portion of a map corresponding to a target area of a first region is incomplete, a request to a device is transmitted to move toward the target area. The map is updated based on the scan performed by the device in the target area. Also described is a virtual image gui...