ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,478, issued on April 21, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and a method for validation of sensor data" was invented by Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.), Yuxin Guan (Chicago), Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Amarnath Nayak (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for validation of sensor data. The system may be configured to receive sensor data associated with a hazard. The sensor data may include at least a first time of occurrence of the hazard. The system may be further configured to determ...