US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 4 for "Map processing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,979, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Map processing" was invented by Robert Niewiadomski (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a relative identifier corresponding to a request to access element data corresponding to an element depicted by a map of an area, the map being divided into a plurality of tiles, the map having map data corresponding thereto, the plurality of tiles having respective sets of tile data corresponding thereto, and the sets of tile data being subsets of the map data. Further, identifying a particular set of tile data corresponding to a particular tile, ...