ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,090, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT (Daejeon, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Map merging method for electronic apparatus" was invented by Byoung Tak Zhang (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Sig Han (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Do Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jae In Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Gang Hun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoon Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map merging method for an electronic apparatus which includes: obtaining information about a first local map of a first apparatus, a pose of the first apparatus in the first...