ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,798, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and system to implement privacy-preserving collaborative semantic mapping" was invented by Gregoire Phillips (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Gary Choncholas (Atlanta), Hector Caltenco (Oxie, Sweden) and Ali El Essaili (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods, electronic devices, storage medium, and instructions to perform privacy-preserving collaborative semantic mapping. In one embodiment, a method comprises: transmitting a request from a first electronic device to participate in a semantic mapping process,...