ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,914, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Submap geographic projections" was invented by Adam Henry Polk Milstein (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining map data associated with a map of a geographic location including one or more roadways, the map including a first submap represented by a first local Euclidean space and a second submap represented by a second local Euclidean space. A route that includes a first roadway in the first submap and a second roadway in the second submap is determined using a first projection between a global coordinate system and the first l...