US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 15 for "Reverse geocoding apparatus, reverse geocoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,388, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reverse geocoding apparatus, reverse geocoding method, and program" was invented by Atsushi Isomura (Musashino, Japan), Isoo Ueno (Musashino, Japan), Naoko Shigematsu (Musashino, Japan), Nobuhiro Oki (Musashino, Japan) and Ichibe Naito (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverse geocoding device includes a database that stores polygons and meshes in association with each other, and a search unit. The search unit inputs position information and search accuracy, and converts the position information into a mesh having a size depending on the search accuracy. Th...