ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,051, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Jeppesen ForeFlight Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).
"Automatic segmentation of geospatial airport data" was invented by Christian Karl Pschierer (Ochsenfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining medial axes of buffers around guidance lines of taxiways of an airport. The buffers define a taxiway polygon representation of the taxiways. The method includes identifying a plurality of intersection points of the medial axes. The method includes segmenting the taxiway polygon into taxiway segments with segment lines based on the plurality of intersection points, where a partic...