US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on July 14 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying turning circles and generating turning circles in map data" (Ukrainian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,827, issued on July 14, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying turning circles and generating turning circles in map data" was invented by Hilko Hofmann (Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany) and Mykola Driuchatyi (Odesa, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for analyzing data to identify turning circles within a road network, and to generate map data corresponding to the identified turning circles. Methods may include: receiving data corresponding to a geographical region; identifying, from the data, a turning circle in the geographi...