US Patent Issued to Astra Navigation on Dec. 16 for "Embedding a magnetic map into an image file" (Ukrainian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,245, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Astra Navigation Inc. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Embedding a magnetic map into an image file" was invented by Alexandre Toutov (Inverary, Canada), Maryna Mukhina (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Svitlana Ilnytska (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a magnetic map of an area that includes magnetic-field values for locations in the area. The method also includes accessing an image file that includes pixels that correspond to the locations and include components. The image file also includes a first matrix with elements that each include color values. The ...