ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,453, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VESTELLALAB INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for generating smart map" was invented by Yung Ji Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sangsu Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Eun Jung Lee (Euiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for generating a smart map. The method includes: receiving a pre-prepared unstructured map; extracting and subtracting at least one target element data among a plurality of element data included in the unstructured map; and constructing a smart map based on the extracted element data when the extracting and subtracting of the target ...