US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Methods and systems for controlling usage of parking maps for autonomous vehicles" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,625, issued on Sept. 1.

"Methods and systems for controlling usage of parking maps for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Anuja Sonalker (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to methods and systems for controlling usage of parking maps for autonomous parking. In some embodiments, an exemplary system includes a computing device, configured to receive a first parking map representative of a first point of interest, wherein the first parking map comprises a first access datum, generate a first map metric associated with the first parking map, and selectively communicate the first parking map with a first re...