ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,505, issued on May 12, was assigned to VANTOR SWEDEN AB (Linkoping, Sweden).

"Computer implemented method for attribution of land use/land cover, a tool for building a transport network map and a navigation device" was invented by Thomas Beckman (Linkoping, Sweden) and Gustav Tapper (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method (100) for attribution of Land Use/Land Cover, LULC, said method comprising the steps of: providing (S1) a plurality of images covering a transport network part, identifying (S2) objects in at least a subset of said plurality of images, identify...