US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on Sept. 29 for "Producing, from data affiliated with images of a location, but excluding pixel color data, a digital map of the location" (Michigan, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,962, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Producing, from data affiliated with images of a location, but excluding pixel color data, a digital map of the location" was invented by Paul J. Ozog (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chong Zhang (Burr Ridge, Ill.), Hai Jin (Fremont, Calif.), Yucong Lin (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mohammed D. Aladem (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Matthew W. Dreisbach (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing, from data affiliated with images of a location, a digital map can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a productions module and a communications module. ...