ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,180, issued on April 7, was assigned to DP WORLD LOGISTICS US HOLDINGS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Artificial intelligence augmentation of geographic data layers" was invented by Mohammed Ismaeel Babur (Temple City, Calif.), Yury Sokolov (La Mesa, Calif.) and Dihan Yang (Alhambra, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gap filling geographic information service data includes determining a bounding region at or near an initial alignment. The method also includes determining the initial alignment within the bounding region. A corridor buffer is generated at or near the initial alignment, and within the bounding region. Cos...