US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Map data adjustments for anomaly correction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,655, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Map data adjustments for anomaly correction" was invented by Gianluca Donato (Los Altos, Calif.), Gunjan Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter J. Potts (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are used to identify buildings that intersect or otherwise overlap a road, and independently scaling the buildings until they no longer overlap. For example, a computer system may identify an intersection condition corresponding to an intersection between a first polygon of a first type and a second polygon of a second type. The first p...