US Patent Issued to GOODMAPS on July 21 for "Localization of user(s) in environment(s)" (California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,402, issued on July 21, was assigned to GOODMAPS INC. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Localization of user(s) in environment(s)" was invented by Fatemeh Mirzaei (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Nicholas J. Karels Jr. (Louisville, Ky.) and Charlie Meredith (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to various techniques for localization of user(s) in environment(s). In particular, processor(s) can utilize a multi-scan technique, a semantic segmentation technique, or a combination of these techniques. In utilizing the multi-scan technique, the processor(s) can initially determine a subset of candidate maps that...