ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,392, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Refining data maps" was invented by Mathew Sam (San Diego), Khalid Tahboub (San Diego), Mayukh Roy (Hyderabad, India), Bing Han (San Diego), Kai Wang (San Diego) and Ashish Medewar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for modifying a map. For instance, a method for modifying a map is provided. The method may include processing a first data map and a reference image to generate first features, the first data map including a first number of data values; processing a guide image to generate second features; modifyi...