US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 15 for "Centerline correction apparatus, centerline correction method, and spatial network data generation system and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,508, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Centerline correction apparatus, centerline correction method, and spatial network data generation system and program" was invented by Mitsuru Mochizuki (Musashino, Japan), Hitoshi Seshimo (Musashino, Japan) and Osamu Matsuda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centerline correction apparatus according to one embodiment corrects a centerline of a path that is acquired from shape information about an indoor space or road shape information about an outdoor space and that is a travelable region in the indoor space or the outdoor space. This centerline correction...