ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,174, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Segmentation method for path routing in multilayer structure and apparatus using the same" was invented by Jaeho Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Namkyeong Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmentation method includes generating an individual multilayer grid map for each of connection target groups corresponding to a multilayer structure and includes an initial probability included in a path routing area of a corresponding connection target group, among connection target groups in the multilayer structure, as a value of a grid cell,...