ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,451, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for positioning a map representation of an environment of a vehicle in a semantic road map" was invented by Andre Wagner (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning a map representation of an environment of a vehicle in a semantic road map. The method includes creating a map representation of an environment of the vehicle based on environmental sensor data; ascertaining characteristic elements in the map representation and in a semantic road map representing the environment; comparing the characteristic elements of t...