US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 12 for "Device and method for determining map data on the basis of observations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,960, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Device and method for determining map data on the basis of observations" was invented by Wolfgang Hempel (Sinzing, Germany), Martin Liebner (Munich), Manuel Luitz (Munich), David Pannen (Munich) and Fabian Zeller (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining map data with respect to a route portion, configured to acquire a first set of first observations during a first trip along the route portion and a second set of second observations during a second trip along the route portion, determine values of a measure of similarity for different p...