ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,079, issued on March 3, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and methods for providing a tile map including a binary representation of a weather-based hazard" was invented by Amarnath Nayak (Mumbai, India), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Alex Averbuch (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing a the map including a binary representation of a weather-based hazard. In one example, the apparatus receives data indicating a polygon defining a region being impacted by a weather condition and overlays the polygon on a tile map...