ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,844, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for adding one or more anchor points to a map of an environment" was invented by Marco Lampacrescia (Stuttgart, Germany), Gerhard Kurz (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Matthias Holoch (Leonberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adding one or more anchor points to a map of an environment, wherein a description has been or is in particular associated with the one or more anchor points. The map is based on a SLAM graph. The map is in particular used to navigate a mobile device in the environment. The method includes, for each of the one or...